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How to watch NASA's James Webb Space Telescope launch on Christmas Day (7:20am EST)
See BS 'News' ^ | 12/24/21 | William Harwood

Posted on 12/24/2021 10:34:14 PM PST by Libloather

NASA and its international partners are counting down to a Christmas Day launch of the most expensive science probe ever built, a $10 billion telescope designed to capture starlight from the first galaxies born in the fiery crucible of the Big Bang.

Billions over budget and years behind schedule, the James Webb Space Telescope is targeted for blastoff from the European Space Agency's Kourou, French Guiana, launch site at 7:20 a.m. EST Saturday atop an Ariane 5 rocket, weather permitting.

Equipped with two solid-fuel strap-on boosters, the workhorse rocket will propel Webb away from the northeast coast of South America on an easterly trajectory, releasing the telescope to fly on its own about 27 minutes after liftoff.

Still folded up to fit inside the Ariane 5's nose cone, the observatory's single solar panel, critical for recharging the spacecraft's batteries, is scheduled to unfold about six minutes after separation, the first in a series of major milestones.

Webb will need a month to reach its planned parking place a million miles from Earth on the far side of the moon's orbit - known as Lagrange Point 2 - where it can circle the sun in gravitational lockstep with Earth, providing the cold, dark environment needed for mission success.

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


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KEYWORDS: christmas; launch; nasa; science; stars; telescope; webb
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How to watch the launch
What: Launch of the James Webb Space Telescope
Date: Saturday, December 25, 2021
Time: Scheduled for 7:20 a.m. EST
Location: European Space Agency spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana
Online stream: Live on CBSN in the player above and on your mobile or streaming device
1 posted on 12/24/2021 10:34:14 PM PST by Libloather
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Here Are the Differences Between Hubble and the Powerful New James Webb Space Telescope

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/here-are-the-differences-between-hubble-and-the-powerful-new-james-webb-space-telescope/3467134/


2 posted on 12/24/2021 11:05:46 PM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Will Have ‘Tremendous Impact’ on Search for Alien Life

https://www.newsweek.com/james-webb-space-telescope-tremendous-impact-search-alien-life-1662887


3 posted on 12/24/2021 11:08:19 PM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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How the James Webb telescope will get into space

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/science-environment-59785417


4 posted on 12/24/2021 11:13:35 PM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Libloather

Cross your antennae and hope all those crucial unfolding steps go nominally.


5 posted on 12/24/2021 11:17:05 PM PST by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O'Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: Libloather

bttt


6 posted on 12/24/2021 11:28:42 PM PST by Cvengr ( Adversity in life & death is inevitable; Stress is optional through faith in Christ.)
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To: Libloather

book marked


7 posted on 12/24/2021 11:43:16 PM PST by jpsb
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To: Libloather
Preview....

Blnk
8 posted on 12/24/2021 11:43:43 PM PST by minnesota_bound (I need more money. )
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To: Libloather

“NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Will Have ‘Tremendous Impact’ on Search for Alien Life”

on Uranus....

sorry... somebody had to do it....


9 posted on 12/25/2021 1:01:12 AM PST by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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To: Libloather

Am I the only person who when they read James Webb telescope immediately thought if the Hubble telescope and thus Webb Hubble and Fort Marcy Park which brought it back to HILLARY!

I am currently wearing a t-shirt that had Bill and Hillary dressed as assassins with the caption “The Clinton’s, They Can’t Suicide us All!”


10 posted on 12/25/2021 1:26:54 AM PST by TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig (To you all, my loyal spell checkers....nothing but prospect and admiral nation.)
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To: TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig

No, but I thought of the other James Webb, the former Virginia senator who wrote pornography on the side (a Democrat, of course).


11 posted on 12/25/2021 1:40:58 AM PST by Berosus (I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
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To: Libloather

2:20


12 posted on 12/25/2021 1:59:50 AM PST by misanthrope (Deranged, sinister, deplorable troll)
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To: Libloather

It is taking off from the port of departure for the infamous Devil’s Island.


13 posted on 12/25/2021 3:17:13 AM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team sco uts photo-op locations.)
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Live coverage began at 6am.

https://www.nasa.gov/content/live-coverage-of-the-james-webb-space-telescope-mission


14 posted on 12/25/2021 3:35:10 AM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Libloather

Who is James Webb?


15 posted on 12/25/2021 3:53:58 AM PST by Chickensoup ( Leftists totalitarian fascists are eradicating conservatives)
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To: Chickensoup

James E. Webb ran the fledgling space agency from February 1961 to October 1968. He believed that NASA had to strike a balance between human space flight and science.

https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/about/faqs/whoIsJamesWebb.html


16 posted on 12/25/2021 3:58:22 AM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Libloather

So far so good. It is now in space. The project started in 1996 and was supposed to have launched in 2007 . Getting men to the moon apparently was easier .


17 posted on 12/25/2021 4:42:24 AM PST by Nateman (Racism is Leftist Dog Whistle for 'Resistance to Communism'.)
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To: Libloather

Bill Nelson, NASA Administrator, former Senator from Florida, is almost 80 years old.

He rambled - haltingly - for about 5 minutes and said nothing of consequence.

He is as cognitively impaired as Joe Biden - or worse!


18 posted on 12/25/2021 5:09:39 AM PST by zeestephen
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To: zeestephen

That’s just about the time I moved on.


19 posted on 12/25/2021 5:13:28 AM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Libloather

Interesting info on the L2 (Lagrange Point) station where the telescope is headed. L2 is 1M miles from Earth and will take the telescope some 30 days to reach.

Because the telescope operates on infrared signals, it requires extensive shielding from light sources. Operational temperature is -370 F.

https://webb.nasa.gov/content/about/orbit.html


20 posted on 12/25/2021 6:59:38 AM PST by Flick Lives
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