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Started by Hydra009, December 19, 2021, 09:26:21 PM

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Hydra009

Executive summary: this telescope is a bigger, better, more badass Hubble and it'll help us find exoplanets, discover galaxies, and peer back to the beginning of the universe.

Two decades of hard work by some of the finest minds on the planet.  Scheduled to launch Christmas Eve 2021.  Fingers crossed.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aICaAEXDJQQ

https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/countdown.html

Gawdzilla Sama

Did they checked the damned mirror this time?
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Hydra009

Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on December 20, 2021, 09:50:16 PMDid they checked the damned mirror this time?
We'll see.  It'll be at Lagrange point 2 (basically, hiding behind Earth's shadow in order to keep its sensitive sensors as cool as possible) 1,500,000 km away from the Earth (about 4 times the distance to the moon), so it'll be too far away to service should something go wrong.  In comparison, the Hubble is a mere 540 km away.

SGOS

#3
Quote from: Hydra009 on December 20, 2021, 10:28:29 PM
We'll see.  It'll be at Lagrange point 2 (basically, hiding behind Earth's shadow in order to keep its sensitive sensors as cool as possible) 1,500,000 km away from the Earth (about 4 times the distance to the moon), so it'll be too far away to service should something go wrong.  In comparison, the Hubble is a mere 540 km away.
Holy crap!  These guys are getting serious about looking into outer space.  I went to a lecture by some Cal Tech guys who said we can't see the beginning of the universe, because the lights didn't come on until 250,000 years later.  I think at time, they were approaching the 250,000 year event.  I'm still hoping we will be able to see the beginning without the aid of light.  Surely if something happened, our guys must be smart enough to detect it.

Well, we think we have already detected it, but we didn't know what it was when we did. It's the back ground radiation that you can see on your TV when it's tuned to an empty channel, but I'm hoping for something more dramatic than that.

Hydra009

Launch pushed back to Christmas Day.

Gawdzilla Sama

#5
Saw an interesting graphic the other day. Picture ~ a dozen (didn't count them.) hexagons (JWT mirror). The Hubble mirror would cover the center hex and a bit of the surrounding hexs. The outer ring of hexs were more than one diameter away from the Hubble mirror. The ghost of Galileo is drooling somewhere out there. Ah, found it.

We 'new atheists' have a reputation for being militant, but make no mistake  we didn't start this war. If you want to place blame put it on the the religious zealots who have been poisoning the minds of the  young for a long long time."
PZ Myers

SGOS

It's on the way!  Final orbit will be 1 million miles from earth. 

SGOS

There don't appear to be any anti-maskers at all in the control center.

PopeyesPappy

6 months until they start their first science missions. :(

Hopefully we will get to see some of the focusing and alignment shots.
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Hydra009

#9
My brother asked why the countdown was in French and if they're launching from France.  🤦‍â™,️

(It launched from French Guiana, in cloudy weather no less)

Cassia

We are fresh out of space shuttles if it doesn't deploy correctly. Perhaps Bezos can do a spacewalk if needs be.

Hydra009

So far, so good!  The real test will be the deployment of the sunshield.

Gawdzilla Sama

Quote from: Cassia on December 25, 2021, 11:41:18 AM
We are fresh out of space shuttles if it doesn't deploy correctly. Perhaps Bezos can do a spacewalk if needs be.
They have a squadron of Teslas ready if needed.
We 'new atheists' have a reputation for being militant, but make no mistake  we didn't start this war. If you want to place blame put it on the the religious zealots who have been poisoning the minds of the  young for a long long time."
PZ Myers


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