While Visions Of Sugar Plumbs Dance Through Your Heads, NASA Was Launching the Webb Telescope Instead – IOTW Report

While Visions Of Sugar Plumbs Dance Through Your Heads, NASA Was Launching the Webb Telescope Instead

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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

9 Comments on While Visions Of Sugar Plumbs Dance Through Your Heads, NASA Was Launching the Webb Telescope Instead

  1. 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…

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