James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

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It's happening.. 3 hours 46 min to launch.
Excellent video about the "Sci-Fi" technology going into the telescope. Hard to believe how far we have come ( in some areas).

"The Insane Engineering of James Webb Telescope"
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If this goes well, we might actually get Logically Irrational back too.
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The James Webb Space Telescope Has Successfully Launched
by Ashley Strickland
Updated 9:01 AM ET, December 25, 2021

https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/25/world/ja ... index.html

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(CNN) It's a moment that has been decades in the making. The James Webb Space Telescope, NASA's premier space observatory of the next decade, successfully launched on Christmas morning.

The telescope lifted off atop an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana at 7:20 a.m. ET.

"We have LIFTOFF of the @NASAWebb Space Telescope!" NASA shared on Twitter. "At 7:20am ET (12:20 UTC), the beginning of a new, exciting decade of science climbed to the sky. Webb's mission to #UnfoldTheUniverse will change our understanding of space as we know it."
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Visit the pages in "Webb Spinoffs" to learn more about how technology developed for this space telescope has been used to improve life on Earth.

https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/about/innovations/

Oh man, the engineering that went into this is just literally beyond this world. :shock:
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James Webb Space Telescope successfully deploys antenna

By Tariq Malik published about 9 hours ago
https://www.space.com/james-webb-space- ... ys-antenna
The antenna will eventually beam Webb's cosmic images to Earth.


NASA's new James Webb Space Telescope successfully deployed a critical antenna Sunday (Dec. 26) just one day after its Christmas launch into space.

The space telescope unfolded what scientists call a gimbaled antenna assembly that carries the high-rate data dish responsible for beaming Webb's observations of the early universe back to Earth. Webb launched into space Saturday atop an Ariane 5 rocket that lifted off from a spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.

"This antenna will be used to send at least 28.6 Gbytes of science data down from the observatory, twice a day," NASA officials wrote in a mission update. "The team has now released and tested the motion of the antenna assembly — the entire process took about one hour."
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There Was a Major Unexpected Benefit to James Webb's Christmas Launch
NANCY ATKINSON, UNIVERSE TODAY
31 DECEMBER 2021

After a detailed analysis of where the James Webb Space Telescope is now (29 December 2021) and how it got there, NASA determined the observatory should have enough propellant to operate in space for significantly more than 10 years in space.

Webb's mission lifetime was designed to be at least 5-1/2 years, and mission engineers and scientists were hoping for closer to 10 years.

The "significantly more than 10 years" announced this week comes from two factors: the precision of the Ariane 5 launch on December 25, which experts say exceeded the requirements needed to put Webb on the right path.

And now, because of how precise JWST's trajectory has been, the first two mid-course correction maneuvers took significantly less fuel than expected.
https://www.sciencealert.com/there-was- ... M57F4_GcDU
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