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Satellites have been launched and operated by NASA, ISRO, ESA, Japanese Space Agency and the Soviet space program later succeeded by Roscosmos of Russia. As of 2018, many space observatories have already completed their missions, while others continue operating on extended time. However, the future availability of space telescopes and observatories depends on timely and sufficient funding. While future space observatories are planned by NASA, JAXA and the China National Space Administration, scientists fear that there would be gaps in coverage that would not be covered immediately by future projects and this would affect research in fundamental science.

At the moment, NASA's newest space observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the next scheduled telescope to launch into space in the year 2021, then followed by the Space Infrared Telescope for Cosmology and Astrophysics (SPICA), codeveloped by the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) and thw European Space Agency (ESA) and planned to launch sometime in the late 2020s.

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