Posted on 06/30/2022 1:57:03 PM PDT by LibWhacker
So has this “eclipsed” Hubbell...or replaced it?
I see on the video that the NASA Administrator is Bill Nelson, the sorry azzed former Florida Democrat senator.
Eclipsed is probably the right word. Hubble will be around a while and can be serviced. No such luck with the Webb.
Development began in 1996 for a launch initially planned for 2007 with a US$500 million budget. I’ve been keeping track the whole time. It was Obviously one delay after another with the cost ballooning to 9.8 billion dollars. I believe long after we are all gone it will be remembered as a great milestone with all the costs and delays merely footnotes to its story.
Hubble will be around a while and can be serviced.
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When they bring a Shuttle out of a museum and put it a launch pad - otherwise Hubble is on its own - its too high to service and the last Shuttle service missions were a huge risk.
One of my jobs at Boeing was as a “Project engineer”.
I was quickly taught to not provide all the information.
If the early cost of a system was known up front it would never be approved, but the system was needed. Catch 22.
Consequently whenever I was on a review board for other projects after given a projected cost and time line, I always assumed double to triple the cost and a longer time frame.
Hell of a way to do business. They are all liars.
I had similar jobs. I hated it.
Neither. It is a separate instrument placed at L2 which gives it a great dark field to look at
It was designed and built to capture first light
Had the specs not continuously changed you would not have had lateness or budgetary increases
So you're saying the upcoming revealed results of this telescope are bogus and not worth the investment?
Psalm 19:1 The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.
Once fully operational it replaces it as our best telescope. It can see further back into history than hubble can.
Hubble will be a spotter scope looking at areas of interest, then JW will look at those areas in detail.
No I’m referring to the money part.
I’m really familiar with the science part and the
Webb will be extraordinary.
But if told up front it was going to cost
as much as it had, it would have never been funded.
Those are some bold statements. I look forward to seeing them.
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“It’s not an image. It’s a new worldview”
“What I have seen moved me, as a scientist, as an engineer, and as a human being.”
“images will show “farther than humanity has ever looked before,” adding that humanity “is only beginning to understand what Webb can and will do.”
Hubble might not be able spot what JWT can see. Everything we can detect or see, we have catalogs of as well as their locations or coordinates, but this changes all that. They're going to need bigger catalogs.
I hope the images reveal some spectacular objects...or maybe something beyond spectacular.
Correct, but it can find areas of interest to explore in greater detail with JW. Thats how I heard they will use zhubble until it stops working for one reason or another.
They already have a list of places for JW to look at from certain areas Hubble has previously been pointed at.
I just can't see JWT needing Hubble to image or locate any targets of interest, especially when the Hubble data and target locations can be readily programed or sent to the scope.
It would save a lot of time, avoiding having to WAIT for signals from earth
That is funny.
After almost 30 years at Intel, we were expected to let management know as soon as possible of possible problems.
You never got punished or demoted because you raised a flag.
Myself and about 10 others knew about the Pentium “Floating Point Flaw” but we were ordered to cover it up by the project head who had sizable stock options based on how many we sold.
When word got out he ordered it covered it up, he was quietly fired.
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