NASA Is Launching a New Telescope That Could Offer Some Cosmic Eye Candy
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#2I find the James Webb the most interesting scientific instrument ever. Finding indications of life on planets light years away just boggles the mind.
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#3I find the James Webb the most interesting scientific instrument ever. Finding indications of life on planets light years away just boggles the mind.
I’ve been following it since I was in college (early 10’s) and I’m beyond excited. I have serious anxiety around the launch going well and getting the telescope safely into orbit. Truly priceless.
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#4I find the James Webb the most interesting scientific instrument ever. Finding indications of life on planets light years away just boggles the mind.
I’ve been following it since I was in college (early 10’s) and I’m beyond excited. I have serious anxiety around the launch going well and getting the telescope safely into orbit. Truly priceless.
same here
we've been lucky enough to see both new horizons pluto flyby and the dawn mission to ceres, but james web telescope takes the top spot in terms of anticipation for me
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#5I’m very excited too and look forward to the launch, but given its history I’d be careful about using the present tense to describe it.
They’re not even past the pirates yet!
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#6I find the James Webb the most interesting scientific instrument ever. Finding indications of life on planets light years away just boggles the mind.
I'm dyiiing! To see the images the lens will capture. We truly are in a new-era of the Space race.
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#7Here is the news from 2016: After 20 Years, NASA Finally Finished Building The James Webb Space Telescope
Now it's ready for the final tests before launch in 2018
https://www.popsci.com/james-webb-space-telescope-is-now-rea...
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#8Here is the news from 2016: After 20 Years, NASA Finally Finished Building The James Webb Space Telescope Now it's ready for the final tests before launch in 2018 https://www.popsci.com/james-webb-space-telescope-is-now-rea...
Not knowing the actual team, but being familiar with space projects, the satellite probably didn't start getting built in earnest until the MCDR in 2010. Most of these kind of projects start off as a spitballing study and then grow and grow and grow into a flight program. That is the time period being cited as starting in the 90s.
It's expensive as hell, and took a while to build - but I think, considering what it is, the schedule isn't all that crazy. The price is a bit insane... but it's also like, wonder of the world level of engineering. Building something like this is akin to making the tower of babel, and then placing that on top of a rocket and sending it almost a million miles away in L2 orbit.
We could argue that a constellation of smaller and cheaper satellites would have probably been better - honestly I don't know much of anything about space optics so I'm not sure if that's really the case lol.
I think it's a pretty amazing project and can't wait to see the results!
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#9I find the James Webb the most interesting scientific instrument ever. Finding indications of life on planets light years away just boggles the mind.
I’ve been following it since I was in college (early 10’s) and I’m beyond excited. I have serious anxiety around the launch going well and getting the telescope safely into orbit. Truly priceless.
For sure! I knew it was crazy complicated, but watched a youtube video that details the deployment procedure.......
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTxLAGchWnA
It takes almost a month and is craaaazy complicated!
Plus it looks like some freaky alien thing.
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#10Sadly this is outdated. On September 16th, 2021 the ESA announced a delay of the launch until mid-2023 to repair pieces of the spacecraft dislodged during transportation to the launch site [0]. More info on the video including damages.