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The James Webb Space Telescope Is in Position. Now It’s Booting Up
Posted on 2/10/22 at 12:56 pm
Posted on 2/10/22 at 12:56 pm
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On Christmas, scientists launched the James Webb Space Telescope and sent it about a million miles from Earth. This summer, the technological marvel will begin collecting never-before-seen images of the cosmos. But between now and then, NASA researchers and their European and Canadian colleagues have their work cut out for them.
They have a many-step process to ensure that the powerful, expensive telescope’s instruments are ready to successfully collect data about everything from faint planets to the distant universe. “Everything’s just about on schedule, but we’re busy people for the next six months. There’s an awful lot to do,” says John Mather, JWST senior project scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
The hardest part might already be done: The spacecraft launched without a hitch, and over the next couple of weeks it delicately unfurled its huge, kite-shaped sun shield, designed to block heat and light from the sun, moon, and Earth, and moved its 18 hexagonal mirror segments into place. “We’re incredibly excited. It was a nail-biter for the first month, and thankfully the deployments went really smoothly,” says Analyn Schneider, the project manager of JWST’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
All the while, the telescope was traveling to its special parking spot at the L2 Lagrange point, where it balances the gravitational pull of the sun and Earth. (Other spacecraft, including the European Space Agency’s Planck Telescope, have been deployed to the same area.) Keeping a spacecraft in that position is gravitationally unstable, sort of like balancing a ball on an upturned bowl. Webb will regularly drift away from L2, requiring little bursts of fuel every few weeks to nudge it back. But it should have plenty left, because scientists maneuvered the telescope to conserve fuel on its outbound trip. Now, the JWST team expects it to run much longer than its planned 5- to 10-year mission, perhaps lasting as long as its predecessors, the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes. “The ballpark is probably 20 years of life. It depends on how good we are at steering our unstable car,” Mather says.
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Since the spacecraft’s now so far away, Mather, Schneider, and their team have to send and receive radio signals through NASA’s Deep Space Network, an international array of giant antennas managed by JPL. When a programmer inputs a command and waits for an acknowledgment from the spacecraft, that signal could be relayed through an antenna in California’s Mojave Desert or one in Eastern Australia, for example. But there’s a slight delay, because of the distance. “If something bad happens, we won’t know for five seconds,” Mather says. (That’s still pretty quick for space transmissions. For example, messages to our Martian ambassadors like the Perseverance rover involve a delay of five to 20 minutes.)
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Posted on 2/10/22 at 12:57 pm to Street Hawk
can't wait for it to blue screen
Posted on 2/10/22 at 12:58 pm to MorbidTheClown
Alexa, turn on muh space telescope.
Posted on 2/10/22 at 1:08 pm to Street Hawk
Space is fake, this "telescope" is just a hoax from godless cultists who are tools of Satan to sow distrust in God
Posted on 2/10/22 at 1:17 pm to Bham Bammer
that's gonna be one helluva service call.
Over time and travel expenses would be "astronomical".
Over time and travel expenses would be "astronomical".
Posted on 2/10/22 at 1:23 pm to MorbidTheClown
Birds are fake and JFK Jr coming back
Posted on 2/10/22 at 1:24 pm to Street Hawk
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If something bad happens, we won’t know for five seconds,” Mather says
Well, if the sun goes out we wouldn’t know for about 8 minutes. So we’re good
This post was edited on 2/10/22 at 1:26 pm
Posted on 2/10/22 at 1:30 pm to Street Hawk
a buddy from Rice is his son, he's fairly stoked about this
Posted on 2/10/22 at 1:31 pm to leftyloosey
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Alexa, turn on muh space telescope.
Alexa, aim and focus muh space telescope on Kate Beckinsale's bedroom window.
Posted on 2/10/22 at 1:33 pm to Street Hawk
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Now It’s Booting Up
Doubtful
This post was edited on 2/10/22 at 1:34 pm
Posted on 2/10/22 at 2:13 pm to Obtuse1
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Alexa, aim and focus muh space telescope on Kate Beckinsale's bedroom window.
This is all you’d see. Definitely not fapping material.
Posted on 2/10/22 at 2:17 pm to Kentucker
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This is all you’d see. Definitely not fapping material.
If you're posting this to any kid from the 90s, then you'd be very wrong. We grew up fapping to scrambled porn, bruh.
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