ars technica
Today, the James Webb Space Telescope started its journey to a location over a million kilometers from Earth, where it will start its science mission in roughly six months. “This is a day for the ages,” said Ken Sembach, director of the Space Telescope Science Institute. “Science won’t be the same after today.”
Sembach said those words roughly an hour before the launch, well before any last minute glitches could have delayed the launch, and long before the complicated series of events that would see parts of the observatory unfold from their compact launch configuration. After years of delays, and so much riding on these events, you might expect a greater sense of tension among those gathered here to watch the launch, but the people gathered at the Space Telescope Science Institute seemed remarkably relaxed. At least until you asked them how they were feeling. More
The launch this morning. Watch
More details on this $10 billion replacement for Hubble that will take up stationary orbit at L2, too far away to send repair teams is anything goes wrong. Here
For some reason I keep calling it the James Woods telescope.
About #%$^% time! I’m very much looking forward to the images we’ll start getting in a few months. (Unless they installed a mirror upside down again, like they did with Hubbell.)
Everything is political now. This has something to do with advancing Communism or Democrats would not allow it. Probably a space weapon for spreading covid more efficiently or something…
Now we can see the new variants as they enter our solar system….
Plumbs!?!?
Uncle Al: I don’t think it was upside down, I thought someone made a miscalculation when they ground the mirror, and fixed it by installing an additional lens.
There is alot of racist maf involved in that attached article. Maf is hard. Maf is racist.
Tony R- Kee rect!
Hopefully Boeing has nothing to do with it .