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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope successfully launches. It’s a complicated mission for world’s most powerful telescope
Boston Globe ^ | 25 December 2021 | MARCIA DUNN (AP) via Boston Globe

Posted on 12/25/2021 11:37:59 AM PST by Fractal Trader

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Bravo!
1 posted on 12/25/2021 11:37:59 AM PST by Fractal Trader
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Did they check the calibration on the mirror before launching it?


2 posted on 12/25/2021 11:41:09 AM PST by throwthebumsout
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James Webb Liftoff
3 posted on 12/25/2021 11:43:06 AM PST by Fractal Trader
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Video of the launch

James Webb Space Telescope blasts off into space on Ariane 5 rocket.
https://rumble.com/vrek5g-james-webb-space-telescope-blasts-off-into-space-on-ariane-5-rocket..html


4 posted on 12/25/2021 11:45:23 AM PST by janetjanet998
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I heard that it will orbit one million miles above the earth.Can they transmit high quality images that far?
5 posted on 12/25/2021 11:45:37 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Covid Is All About Mail In Balloting)
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Each segment of the mirror is capable of being independently adjusted.


6 posted on 12/25/2021 11:46:03 AM PST by MRadtke (Light a candle or curse the darkness?)
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Is the disgronificator properly aligned?


7 posted on 12/25/2021 11:46:42 AM PST by Fury
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RE: I heard that it will orbit one million miles above the earth.Can they transmit high quality images that far?
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You just wait until you see the prints when they arrive at WalGreen’s. You will be really impressed.


8 posted on 12/25/2021 11:49:24 AM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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I hate to think if the launch would have been a failure, as 10 billion would have gone down the drain. But I am delighted to hear they made it!


9 posted on 12/25/2021 11:49:27 AM PST by saintgermaine (Saintgermain the time traveler)
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It will orbit the sun parallel to the earth’s orbit.

Data can be transmitted millions of miles in space.


10 posted on 12/25/2021 11:52:06 AM PST by jjotto (Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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RE: Did they check the calibration on the mirror before launching it?
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Darn. Can’t think of everything.

When the Hubble device was blurry comedian Mark Russell said that due to budget cutbacks they were sending an optometrist from Pearl Vision on the space shuttle to make adjustments. “Saving some money but getting the job done.”


11 posted on 12/25/2021 11:53:55 AM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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"I heard that it will orbit one million miles above the earth.Can they transmit high quality images that far?"

Short answer...yes. Higher definition just takes more time to transmit. But time is, for all practical purposes, essentially indefinite..so the ultimate image is not limited by transmission, but by the design of the telescope itself (pixel count of the imaging sensor, sharpness of image focus, and similar factors). .

12 posted on 12/25/2021 11:55:30 AM PST by Wonder Warthog (Not Responding to Seagull Snark)
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Sure hope they kept all the hinges on the folding contraption well lubed during the years of storage.


13 posted on 12/25/2021 11:56:27 AM PST by doorgunner69 ("Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.." -Joseph Stalin)
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Destination is the L2 Lagrange Point.

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

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/754/what-is-a-lagrange-point/


14 posted on 12/25/2021 11:58:40 AM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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They’re still getting data from the Voyagers and I trust you’ve seen some of the pix from the various Mars missions.


15 posted on 12/25/2021 11:59:03 AM PST by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not a tagline.)
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Why? Brandon gave $85 billion to the taliban.

I hate to think if the launch would have been a failure, as 10 billion would have gone down the drain.


16 posted on 12/25/2021 11:59:29 AM PST by Dacula ("Don’t Wait Until Some Great Crisis Comes Before Deciding On Christ.” - Ty Cobb)
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Thought soetoro defunded nasa. Defunding part II coming up next prob.


17 posted on 12/25/2021 11:59:54 AM PST by Miami_U_Redskin
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It’s a shame that most of America will hear news about the successful launch and just kind of shrug and say “that’s kind of neat that they launched a satellite on Christmas”, then go back to their day.

The geometry and complexity of the satellite are impressive, grtting the vehicle to the orbit is impressive and more complicated than normal, the mission, while not particularly sexy like shooting men to the moon or setting off nukes on Mars or something, is very interesting to science, and as complicated and expensive as the whole mission is, it’s the simplest, cheapest way for science to gather the types of information that they’ve chosen to look for.


18 posted on 12/25/2021 12:01:05 PM PST by jz638
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It would be a fascinating mission to punch into an asteroid and then let that asteroid carry the camera to the outer parts of the solar system. If you do this with 5 or 6 asteroids, your field of vision would be gigantic, with nothing but empty space to peer through rather than atmosphere.


19 posted on 12/25/2021 12:02:41 PM PST by Kevmo (I’m immune from Covid since I don’t watch TV.🤗)
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I’m not sure on that in the medium to long term. If this thing works like it should it’ll be hailed in the media a lot. Hubble sure has been, everyone knows about it. NASAs been doing really good work with the Mars and exploration work in general for a long time now, so I’m not surprised it’s not the biggest news for now. Last I saw Ingenuity on Mars was still flying, but no peep in the media much after the 2nd or 3rd flight.


20 posted on 12/25/2021 12:03:59 PM PST by Houserino
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