nightmare-slain
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i missed the launch. only tuned in when it left the rocket (?) and the solar panel thing came out. the sun shining on it was quite beautiful.
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James Webb space telescope (JWST) launch scheduled for 24th of December.
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Tams
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You didn't miss much. It was very cloudy, so the rocket just disappeared into the clouds within a couple of seconds.
Still, utterly fantastic to see.
Buggy Loop
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mortal
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Oberstein
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Go Webb!
Obviously a video filmed from a studio.
We can see some glitches in the green screen background.
greyshark
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Nice page showing the current location of Webb and its deployment status:
Where Is Webb? NASA/Webb
During Webb's launch, deployment and commissioning, 'WhereIsWebb' tracked Webb's 'flight' to L2 orbit, its state and progress during its deployment and commissioning process, and finally the release of its first images. This process is now complete. During this process, the page constantly...
www.jwst.nasa.gov
Con-Z-epT
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Cool! Thanks for sharing. Will have a look out for that.Nice page showing the current location of Webb and its deployment status:
Where Is Webb? NASA/Webb
During Webb's launch, deployment and commissioning, 'WhereIsWebb' tracked Webb's 'flight' to L2 orbit, its state and progress during its deployment and commissioning process, and finally the release of its first images. This process is now complete. During this process, the page constantly...www.jwst.nasa.gov
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Seeing all those bestagon hexagons reminds me of that Grey YouTube video.
Alter_Fridge
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Who the fook is James Webb, anyway?
greyshark
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Alter_Fridge
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Ran out of budget
Alter_Fridge
Member
Is this a haiku?
plushyp
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Alter_Fridge
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Kev Kev
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Nice page showing the current location of Webb and its deployment status:
Where Is Webb? NASA/Webb
During Webb's launch, deployment and commissioning, 'WhereIsWebb' tracked Webb's 'flight' to L2 orbit, its state and progress during its deployment and commissioning process, and finally the release of its first images. This process is now complete. During this process, the page constantly...www.jwst.nasa.gov
by the time im done typing and posting this and someone actually sees it, this thing will have had enough time to make it from the east coast of florida, all the way to the west coast, and well on its way back lmao.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
This song is still brilliant
Alter_Fridge
Member
Watch the big band version
Insane Metal
Member
I'm so happy everything worked fine for the launch. Now to the deployment and testing. Godspeed, JWST!
Hawking Radiation
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So happy to see so many sharing and enjoying this historic moment. Thank you to everyone who is continuing to post. You guys are awesome. Hope you had a good Xmas.
Mobile Suit Gooch
Grundle: The Awakening
James Webb is from my neck of the woods. Neat
Hawking Radiation
Member
Expect first images June/July 2022.
Takes long time to cool down thr observatory and calibrate all the systems.
Shadowplay1979
Member
Its gonna be a breath holders every opening stage on the way there
FunkMiller
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Coolwhhip
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If only we could look at how this guy spent his money and time the last 25 years.
ClanOfNone
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0.48% of an almost 5 trillion dollar Federal budget is just sad. We're never gonna get off this rock like that.
Coolwhhip
Neophyte
Think private companies have more chance of success in the long run. Unless an America vs China space race happens.
FunkMiller
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We should be spending at least ten times the amount on space exploration the world does now. Maybe twenty times. We have to think of our futures, as well as understanding the construction of the universe around us. The profound and lasting positive changes previous discoveries and inventions around space exploration has brought us demands we start taking it more seriously again… as opposed to wasting billions on fucking missiles, guns and Roblox.
SiteSeer
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perspective my dude, 9+ billion on a single project is insane.
fun fact: the hubble space telescope is only one of a series of similar telescopes, unfortunately the others are classified and point down instead of up.
Buggy Loop
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There's no doubt there's tons of military satellites that point down on earth, but i'm not sure who can even come to the conclusion they are even remotely based on Hubble?
It's not even in the same range of optical needs. Hubble requires super light sensitive sensors and a very near field to focus on far regions of the galaxy. It would be totally pointless to turn it around and take a shot of the Earth as, relatively to what Hubble was made for, Earth is very bright and very close. Also since it's field of view is made for distant objects, you would be making insane number of mosaics just to cover 1 orbit of Earth. Even for moon shots, Hubble is outclassed by virtually all ground based telescopes.
For good ground observations they would be on such different optical needs that any internal optics would be vastly different than Hubble anyway.
So yea..
Marvel
could never
Honestly cannot wait to see.
Kev Kev
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Portugeezer
Member
It still needs to unfold first.
I heard there is a 70% chance (can't remember which scientist said this) it will go without issue if we assume all the pre-launch checks on JWST went well (so many parts).
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haxan7
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Sadly we need missiles and guns in order to have a society where something like NASA can exist.
SiteSeer
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google is your friend here, mate.
There's no doubt there's tons of military satellites that point down on earth, but i'm not sure who can even come to the conclusion they are even remotely based on Hubble?
It's not even in the same range of optical needs. Hubble requires super light sensitive sensors and a very near field to focus on far regions of the galaxy. It would be totally pointless to turn it around and take a shot of the Earth as, relatively to what Hubble was made for, Earth is very bright and very close. Also since it's field of view is made for distant objects, you would be making insane number of mosaics just to cover 1 orbit of Earth. Even for moon shots, Hubble is outclassed by virtually all ground based telescopes.
For good ground observations they would be on such different optical needs that any internal optics would be vastly different than Hubble anyway.
So yea..
i guess the point i was trying to make was that there were waiting lines for scientists to use the instrument (hst), while at the same time a dozen or more similar craft were orbiting that were used for spying and not scientific discovery.
'Reasearch yourself' is always a good indication of something that's based on a poorly researched conspiracy.
Those satellites which 'spy' on you are pretty much useless for anything else but looking at earth. Their optical capabilities are laughably poor/unsuitable for seeing anything out in the universe.
There's no doubt there's tons of military satellites that point down on earth, but i'm not sure who can even come to the conclusion they are even remotely based on Hubble?
It's not even in the same range of optical needs. Hubble requires super light sensitive sensors and a very near field to focus on far regions of the galaxy. It would be totally pointless to turn it around and take a shot of the Earth as, relatively to what Hubble was made for, Earth is very bright and very close. Also since it's field of view is made for distant objects, you would be making insane number of mosaics just to cover 1 orbit of Earth. Even for moon shots, Hubble is outclassed by virtually all ground based telescopes.
For good ground observations they would be on such different optical needs that any internal optics would be vastly different than Hubble anyway.
So yea..
You haven't seen the leaked top secret Project MR footage bro?
Buggy Loop
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The « do your own research » ? Really? No I don’t need to find some obscure geocities or 4chan conspiracy result from tHe GOOglE. I went far enough in engineering to know that you’re basically would take the worse possible tool (Hubble) for a job of observing earth. There’s no questions about it. Even someone with basics optics knowledge from entry level physics in college would understand how it doesn’t make any sense.
Turning spy satellites 180 degrees to observe the universe is just as bad of an idea as using Hubble like telescopes to spy down on Earth. It simply doesn’t work like that.
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FunkMiller
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I can’t even begin to reply to a post claiming that Hubble is in any way similar to low orbit satellites. It’s kind of like comparing a Formula One car to a skateboard with a hairdryer strapped to it.
IDKFA
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Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Is that the point, though? That's just stating an observation about our current allocation of money. The point would be your thoughts on that observation and what you think the best way of going forward would be. As in:
"We spend a lot more money and resources on spy stuff, and relatively not as much for scientific discovery. Therefore . . . what?"