James Webb Space Telescope Launch Update

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2 minutes!

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Cool it was launching from a tropical rain forest... the contrast given the technology involved and its space mission.

Sucks it was only about 10 seconds of flight before the clouds obscured the view. WHERE THEM DRONES AT?

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Not a good day for flat earthers

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So remember the good old days when rocket launches were all in English.

What’s this french shit? Or should I say merd?

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Honestly, I'm really looking forward to the images this telescope will provide in the years to come. My prediction, @mark ? The horsehead nebula turns out to not really be a horse, but instead a bunch of stars.

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@bachophile said in James Webb Space Telescope Launch Update:

What’s this french shit? Or should I say merd?

Imagine the confusion during meetings as this was developed as they constantly had to convert between perfect american measurements to communist metric bullshit?

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@89th and when they discover that Ursa Major really is a big fucking bear and it eats the telescope

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@bachophile lol

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Should be time for a commercial from Tang orange drink??

[bachophile]

Only people my age will get that

[Renauda]

@bachophile

Roger that bach, it’s a go for Tangcom 1.

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@renauda

Link to video

[Copper]


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@copper LOL

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[Copper]

Updates here: https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/

So far, so good

[George K]

https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-uncovers-sunshield

The James Webb Space Telescope has unwrapped its sunshield, crossing another important item off of its lengthy and risky deployment to-do list.

After successfully extending its deployable tower assembly (DTA), a structure that connects Webb's two halves, on Thursday (Dec. 29), the telescope had the room to begin the preliminary steps to unfurl its gigantic sunshield. Today (Dec. 30), mission teams completed two major next steps: deploying the James Webb Space Telescope's aft momentum flap and releasing the sunshield's protective membrane cover.

Webb still must unfurl the sunshield, which it will do in the next day or so by extending two booms. The mission team will then spend a few days getting the five-layer structure to the proper tension, wrapping up such work no earlier than Sunday (Jan. 2).

That will end the sunshield deployment, and the Webb team will move on to the telescope's optics. Webb's primary and secondary mirrors are expected to be deployed by Jan. 7, according to NASA, bringing the observatory's deployment phase to an end.

[Copper]

Final mirror opening live now

Link to video

[George K]

Pitchers today:

https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescopes-first-images-nasa-announcement?fbclid=IwAR3dAKpUqBn_Oj2DajLZvTkP84GLXvkT-NZ0Oho201rosp_W--j0ccQ0S4k&utm_campaign=socialflow

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