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[Buggy Loop]

Omg, i can’t believe it’s going so well so far. We somehow switched to a brighter timeline

 

[Insane Metal]

Starboard Primary Mirror Wing Deployment Underway – James Webb Space Telescope

blogs.nasa.gov

The Webb mission operations team has given the ‘go-ahead’ to move forward with the extension of its starboard primary mirror panel. This is the last of the major deployments on the observatory, and its completion will set the stage for the remaining five and a half months of commissioning, which consist of settling into stable operating temperature, aligning the mirrors, and calibrating the science instruments.

Like Buggy Loop said, can't believe how well it's going. Holy crap! That's what testing to exhaustion gets you.

 

[Buggy Loop]

It’s DONE! Motherfucking JWST is FULLY deployed!

OMG props to that NASA team.

5~6 months of calibration and in 15 days the engine maneuver for L2 orbit insertion.

 

[Con_Z_ǝdʇ]

5~6 months of calibration...

Ridiculous! Just shows you how sensitive and precise the telescope is.

 

[Coolwhhip]

And it wasn't even a trending topic on Tweeter.

 

[nkarafo]

And it wasn't even a trending topic on Tweeter.

Sound good to me? Space exploration and science are better without that filth.

 

[Buggy Loop]

And it wasn't even a trending topic on Tweeter.

It’s trending at #1 in Reddit/r/all and /r/popular at the moment at least.

 

[Buggy Loop]

The calibration schedule:

 

[Coolwhhip]

Any chance on accidental discoveries during the calibration? Or is it really 6 months of waiting now.

 

[Buggy Loop]

Any chance on accidental discoveries during the calibration? Or is it really 6 months of waiting now.

Happy surprises can always happen. They might release a few shots before final calibration if it already looks sharper than Hubble before it’s even done for example.

One of the first planned scientific shot and benchmark they want to do is to look at the Hubble deep field region and to make a comparison. Should be mind blowing when they’re fully calibrated.

 

[greyshark]

What an accomplishment - so excited to see the initial images that come out.

 

[Badlucktroll]

Warp Drive =

Or Stephen Kings’s The Jaunt, where your mind is awake and self aware, and unable to die for billions of years (if you jaunt while concious)

 

[greyshark]

Warp Drive =



Or Stephen Kings’s The Jaunt, where your mind is awake and self aware, and unable to die for billions of years (if you jaunt while concious)

Come on man, spoiler tag that image.

 

[haxan7]

Warp Drive =



Or Stephen Kings’s The Jaunt, where your mind is awake and self aware, and unable to die for billions of years (if you jaunt while concious)

I can't think of any concept more terrifying than that. Except maybe being in extreme physical pain for the billions of years.

 

[Con_Z_ǝdʇ]

Warp Drive =

Or Stephen Kings’s The Jaunt, where your mind is awake and self aware, and unable to die for billions of years (if you jaunt while concious)

Maybe JWST can finally find the uncensored director's cut of Event Horizon everyone is talking about.

 

[G-Bus]

Very informative interview. Talk about capabilities and what they expect to get from Webb.

Not sure if already posted..

 

[Facism]

Very informative interview. Talk about capabilities and what they expect to get from Webb.

Not sure if already posted..

saved for a time when it isn't 3am and i should be in bed. Cheers m8

 

[IDKFA]

I can't think of any concept more terrifying than that. Except maybe being in extreme physical pain for the billions of years.

Are you kidding? That sounds amazing! I'd sign up to that in a heartbeat.

 

[Portugeezer]

Things went so smoothly that they now say the life span of JWST may be as long as 20 years.

 

[Coolwhhip]

Would be funny if after everything went well, the easy part, the burn to put it into L2 orbit fails and it floats into space fully operational.

 

[Hawking Radiation]

Would be funny if after everything went well, the easy part, the burn to put it into L2 orbit fails and it floats into space fully operational.

LMFAO

Would be like this gif

 

[Hawking Radiation]

Happy surprises can always happen. They might release a few shots before final calibration if it already looks sharper than Hubble before it’s even done for example.

One of the first plane scientific shot and benchmark they want to do is to look at the Hubble deep field region and to make a comparison. Should be mind blowing when they’re fully calibrated.

The detail they're going to pull out of this galaxy is going to be insane, the most distant ever seen. Personally can't wait to see the Webb ultra deep field.

 

[Buggy Loop]

Unless they fuck up the entry to L2 (highly unlikely), Ariane 5’s launch went so well that they had to make less corrections for JWST’s trajectory that it effectively doubled the lifespan of JWST from 10 years to 20 years

All hail the Ariane 5 rocket, which doubled the Webb telescope’s lifetime

“It would have been criminal not to do it.”…

arstechnica.com

Hopefully by that time we can send refueling drones to L2 to extend it even further.

 

[haxan7]

James Webb's "Lifespan" May Have Been Doubled With A Perfect Launch - BBC-Edition

This week, NASA said it would take less fuel than expected for the James Webb Space Telescope to reach Lagrange Point L2. This is good news for research,

bbc-edition.com

that link opened some nasty spyware looking tabs

 

[Buggy Loop]

that link opened some nasty spyware looking tabs

Oh? BBC what you doing.. anyway, changed URL.

 

[haxan7]

Oh? BBC what you doing.. anyway, changed URL.

Wasn't BBC, that was some random wordpress template site with BBC in the title

 

[Hawking Radiation]

James Webb Space Telescope should have fuel for about 20 years of science

Oh sweet baby Jesus.
You have truely blessed us.

This is H U G E !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[TylerD]

Really positive news so far in all regards. I hope it all continues.

 

[Alter_Fridge]

347 fail points and not a single one failed

Brilliant

 

[Spaceman292]

Hopefully by that time we can send refueling drones to L2 to extend it even further.

Hopefully by that time we've made a new telescope which is twice as big.

 

[MastaKiiLA]

The Ariane 5 had a perfect launch, but NASA was probably really conservative in their estimates too. Or, it could be that the difference between a short mission and a long mission fuel-wise is really tight. So that perfect launch trajectory might have been like hitting the jackpot. Amazing news! I can't wait for the first images, eventhough it's still so far away.

 

[Alter_Fridge]

It still perplexes me how we can receive signals from something 1.5 million kilometers away

 

[haxan7]

It still perplexes me how we can receive signals from something 1.5 million kilometers away

Was thinking about that myself. I’m sure someone here can give a succinct explanation.

 

[Buggy Loop]

It still perplexes me how we can receive signals from something 1.5 million kilometers away

Speed is not the problem, 5 secs delay only. Receiving/transmission of course is a bit more problematic but not at those distances with their large antennas. I mean, we communicated with rovers on mars at 342.8 million km.

They’re still communicating with Voyager 2 which is like >18 billion km. Now that..

 

[RJMacready73]

Radio waves travel at the speed of light chaps but the data rate is real low

 

[West Texas CEO]

Was thinking about that myself. I’m sure someone here can give a succinct explanation.

 

[EviLore]

We can observe distant galaxies. That is a function of electromagnetic radiation traversing enormous distances—up to billions of light-years—to get here. 1.5 million kilometers is relatively trivial.

 

[RJMacready73]

We can observe distant galaxies. That is a function of electromagnetic radiation traversing enormous distances—up to billions of light-years—to get here. 1.5 million kilometers is relatively trivial.

Bloody laws of physics keeping us confined to our solar system!!!

 

[Alter_Fridge]

Speed is not the problem, 5 secs delay only. Receiving/transmission of course is a bit more problematic but not at those distances with their large antennas. I mean, we communicated with rovers on mars at 342.8 million km.

They’re still communicating with Voyager 2 which is like >18 billion km. Now that..

How is that even possible

 

[Alter_Fridge]

Radio waves travel at the speed of light chaps but the data rate is real low

How do we know the exact path they're traveling at to aim the antennae?

 

[Kev Kev]

Very informative interview. Talk about capabilities and what they expect to get from Webb.

Not sure if already posted..

ya know im not even really that into this stuff, not like some of you, at least. but this was super interesting and educational and i have to recommend it to anyone else who is curious, even if youre a dodo like me lol. thanks for sharing!

 

[Rentahamster]

How is that even possible

You can see the light from distant stars right? That light is information that your eyes can pick up. Radio waves are the same electromagnetic radiation, but at a different frequency. Our eyes can't detect those frequencies, but we have other types of instruments that can.

If you can see it, you can transmit data. How long that's going to take, and the bandwidth and data integrity... well that's another story.

 

[RJMacready73]

How do we know the exact path they're traveling at to aim the antennae?

Think of it like a ripple in water that just spreads out wider and wider the further from source, thats why we have massive dishes on earth to pick up these faint signals

 

[Ozzy Onya A2Z]

Radio waves travel at the speed of light chaps but the data rate is real low

I'm very curious on progress around quantum communications. The throughput and time to live is theoretically instantaneous, in space over vast distances or locally here on Earth.

 

[E-Cat]

What are the chances that the telescope gets hit by a meteoroid or something like that?

 

[E-Cat]

Think of it like a ripple in water that just spreads out wider and wider the further from source, thats why we have massive dishes on earth to pick up these faint signals

Ok, so it basically hits everything within the radius. Makes sense.

 

[Kev Kev]

What are the chances that the telescope gets hit by a meteoroid or something like that?

 

[Lukaku's First Touch]

What are the chances that the telescope gets hit by a meteoroid or something like that?

A chance of 1 out of 10.

 

[E-Cat]

A chance of 1 out of 10.

Really? During a 10-year period? Or are you taking the piss

 

[RJMacready73]

Really? During a 10-year period? Or are you taking the piss

he's taking the proverbial, the chances of it getting hit with space debris are astronomical