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NASA completes Webb telescope deployments
CBS News ^
| 08 January 2022
| William Harwood
Posted on 01/08/2022 3:06:49 PM PST by zeestephen
A pallet holding three of the James Webb Space Telescope's 18 hexagonal mirror segments rotated into position and locked in place Saturday, filling out the observatory's 21.3-foot-wide primary mirror to wrap up the most complicated set of spacecraft deployments ever attempted...The first science images are expected in about six months.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: webbtelescope
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To: zeestephen
The first science images are expected in about six months.
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The Long Wait begins
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posted on
01/08/2022 3:09:06 PM PST
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
To: zeestephen
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posted on
01/08/2022 3:13:23 PM PST
by
RockyTx
To: zeestephen
Saw it was so well done that they thought a 6 year lifespan, then 10, now looking at a 20-year lifespan.
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posted on
01/08/2022 3:14:43 PM PST
by
Houserino
To: zeestephen
Wonderful! I am following James Webb closely. I can’t wait for the findings.
To: zeestephen
Can hardly wait to see them.
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posted on
01/08/2022 3:16:36 PM PST
by
SkyDancer
( I make airplanes fly, what's your super power?)
To: zeestephen
Lets see if they turn it around to spy on us.
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posted on
01/08/2022 3:22:22 PM PST
by
UnwashedPeasant
(The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
To: PIF
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posted on
01/08/2022 3:22:51 PM PST
by
eclectic
(Liberalism is a mental disorder)
To: eclectic
They have to align all the mirrors several times
getting closer to alignment each time.
Also still waiting for temp of mechanism to reach
optimum.
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posted on
01/08/2022 3:25:14 PM PST
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: zeestephen
Too many things to go wrong, it's amazing it all worked. But they did test it several times on the ground.
To: zeestephen
Good news so far. Being infrared it will enable discovery of many stars that were previously obscured.
To: PIF
“The first science images are expected in about six months.”
Sounds like the software was written by MS... lol :)
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posted on
01/08/2022 3:31:48 PM PST
by
Openurmind
(The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
To: zeestephen
Imagine being the tech doing this...
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posted on
01/08/2022 3:32:15 PM PST
by
mylife
(You believe that ? Cuz you don't believe me? Unbelievable!)
To: zeestephen
The telescope is like a complex origami sculpture. An origami sculpture the size of a tennis court!
To: tet68
collimating is not easy and takes large data sets
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posted on
01/08/2022 3:34:15 PM PST
by
mylife
(You believe that ? Cuz you don't believe me? Unbelievable!)
To: Flick Lives
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posted on
01/08/2022 3:35:41 PM PST
by
mylife
(You believe that ? Cuz you don't believe me? Unbelievable!)
To: Houserino
Hubble’s been working far beyond it’s end of service date. For that matter, so has the Mars helicopter.
To: All
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posted on
01/08/2022 3:38:44 PM PST
by
Dacula
("Don’t Wait Until Some Great Crisis Comes Before Deciding On Christ.” - Ty Cobb)
To: Flick Lives
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posted on
01/08/2022 3:40:47 PM PST
by
mylife
(You believe that ? Cuz you don't believe me? Unbelievable!)
To: plain talk
Age of universe chart. Impressive.
There should be line for Age of Dianne Feinstein (88 years) , Nancy Pelosi (81 years) and Biden (79 years).
And the last time Dems listened to reason instead of pushing the Marxist revolution.
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posted on
01/08/2022 3:41:52 PM PST
by
frank ballenger
(You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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