Updates James Webb Space Telescope updates

[Notebook]

'Perfect' James Webb telescope on track for launch

Engineers begin assembling the rocket that will send to orbit the successor to the Hubble telescope.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Fabri91]

Must have been a real code brown moment - link to press release.

 

[Urwumpe]

Tell me why I don't like mondays...

The clamp band that was supposed to secure the telescope to the launcher got released, no idea how this is even possible. How cursed can a probe be?

 

[GLS]

How cursed can a probe be?

You called?

 

[Gargantua2024]

You called?

Also Hubble and (apparently) Lucy lol

 

[Arvil]

Murphy’s Law? As one of my CNC machinist guys used to say, ‘What the hell, doesn’t anything work around here?!?’

Hope they correctly tested the optics this time, don’t wanna see Hubble all over again, ain’t fixin’ it this time!

 

[Notebook]

James Webb telescope lifted atop its launch rocket

The $10bn successor to Hubble is bolted to the Ariane rocket that will blast it into space.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[N_Molson]

I don't know you, but a successful launch would be my Christmas present !

 

[GLS]

I don't know you, but a successful launch would be my Christmas present !

When Hubble was fixed in 1993, the confirmation it was good was around Christmas time, so there is a precedent for space telescopes to work at this time of the year.

 

[Arvil]

Just sorta side note. At a recent gathering, I happen to run into one of the engineers at A.I. Solutions, the contractor responsible for navigation for the Webb. This was last Friday and he had to work the weekend to update something in the software and ship it back by Monday. Cool meet!
Those guys are waiting with fingers crossed and bated breath.

 

[GLS]

Calm down, it's not real

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1471014314479960066

 

[Thunder Chicken]

The James Webb Space Telescope is so powerful that it can see back into the distant past. So far into the past, in fact, that it can see the Universe at the time of its original launch date.

 

[Sbb1413]

Calm down, it's not real

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1471014314479960066

As I can't like the post with a laugh emoji, I'm posting the emoji here:

 

[GLS]

Another day

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1473408195158626307

BTW: 7:20am ET (12:20am UTC) ?‍?‍?‍?‍?‍

 

[n72.75]

I feel like it should just wait until January at this point. It'll be interesting to see what sort of trillion-dollar cube-sat gets sent up to fix it next year.

 

[Keatah]

Seems like a lot of little conspiracies added up to bring us to a Dec 25th blast off.

 

[Arvil]

Didn’t wanna hit Santa.

 

[Urwumpe]

No launching on Newtons Birthday.

 

[Kyle]

The launch is still on for December 25th as of this comment.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1474029154928574472

 

[GLS]

Less than 24h now.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1474182947339177987