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James Webb telescope launch info

Post by macdoc » Thu Dec 23, 2021 4:38 pm

fingers crossed

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Post by JimC » Thu Dec 23, 2021 10:45 pm

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Re: James Webb telescope launch info

Post by macdoc » Fri Dec 24, 2021 7:59 am

Good info here
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Move over Hubble: Why the James Webb Space Telescope is such a big deal
https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/webb-te ... -1.6295339
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Post by aufbahrung » Fri Dec 24, 2021 9:22 am

Should have bought two. Interferometry value and in-case it blows up on lift off. What was the logic of putting all eggs in one basket? Bean-counters?
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Re: James Webb telescope launch info

Post by macdoc » Sat Dec 25, 2021 11:09 am

NASA is live now.

countdown ...with an hour..
https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/countdown.html
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:tup:
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Re: James Webb telescope launch info

Post by macdoc » Sat Dec 25, 2021 12:29 pm

thing really moved off the pad - amazing acceleration
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Post by aufbahrung » Sat Dec 25, 2021 1:59 pm

Difficult part is bringing it back for a museum piece towards the end of the century.
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Post by macdoc » Sat Dec 25, 2021 7:22 pm

toward the end of the sun deaths perhaps/
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Post by Svartalf » Sat Dec 25, 2021 7:50 pm

Bah, we'll catch it up when we move out.
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Re: James Webb telescope launch info

Post by macdoc » Sat Dec 25, 2021 9:30 pm

hehe ..you been reading too much Peter Hamilton

Good info here on what is coming ... two weeks of terror... :popcorn:
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Re: James Webb telescope launch info

Post by Hermit » Wed Jan 12, 2022 6:33 pm

Typical NASA inefficiency, spending 10 billion bucks on a gadget someone else built for next to nothing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Q-ByQekocs
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Re: James Webb telescope launch info

Post by Woodbutcher » Thu Jan 13, 2022 12:06 am

I wonder if they will look at the earth as well...
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