Space Never Fails to Blow My Mind, 2nd Edition

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  1. Mr Bulldops

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    Out: Sweet Meteor of Death

    In: Sweet Meteor of city-wide mass destruction.


    It'll have to do.
     
  3. Mr Bulldops

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    Baby steps
     
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    Ah, Now I see, it needs to be below 50Kelvin in order to see infrared light and not produce any itself. Crazy.

    So its cooling down but not there yet, we need to drop about another 40F to get there
     
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    For those wondering about such things
     
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    Final latch move about to commence.

    If successful, L2 insertion insertion, removal of mirror hardstops, calibrating the primary and secondary mirror, instrument checkover, image calibration is basically all we have left.
     
  8. Emma

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    Starboard primary mirror wing complete

    Fully deployed JWST observatory

    What a feat
     
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    That's amazing. I saw this morning we are 80% of the way to L2 and I think they start adjusting the mirror alignments tommorow
     
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    Can it hit us already?
     
  16. Shinzon

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    Definitely the most high-quality photos I’ve seen. Also, would love to think that some of those perfect circle indentions aren’t simply from meteors, but some are from alien spacecraft landing on the moon.

     
  17. Mr Bulldops

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    Not my pictures of yesterday’s launch

     
  18. TableKnight

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    Only thing is left is L2 insertion and then it's time to start her up and start final calibrations

    Crazy

     
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    16 years of delays were worth it
     
  20. WhiskeyDelta

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    Happy L2 insertion burn day!
     
  21. WC

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    Here’s a good L2 explanation if you’re dumb like me and never quite understood what was happening

     
  22. WhiskeyDelta

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    I was wondering why they were putting it in Orbit at L2 vs in the stable point. The solar power makes a lot of sense.
     
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    I guess I didn't realize L2 was stable without the orbit that Webb is doing. Makes me wonder why this decision was made instead of a stable point and a nuclear battery like Voyager. There would be no need for the occasional adjustment burns and that battery would last 50ish years.
     
  24. TableKnight

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    Nevermind, did my own research here...

    So I guess they need the extra power for all of the science.
     
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    I was thinking having an onboard power source might fuck with the insanely sensitive IR camera, so you put the power source 5 solar shields away from the camera.
     
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    Brb, getting a "Home on Lagrange" tattoo with James Webb playing a guitar
     
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    Now we wait patiently
     
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    Elon offsetting any environmental gains of Tesla
     
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    Is this rare?
     
  32. Mr Bulldops

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    The trajectory usually takes it out over the Atlantic so a lot of stuff like that you can’t really see aside from the launch and eventually just a bright spec in the sky
     
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    B89C467C-F723-49E8-9A3D-AE83A6E6961A.jpeg
     
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    That whole launch last night was awesome to see. Watched with my son, we saw separation, cold thrusters on the booster return, entry burn, we could see the separation of the phalanx, the sonic booms. It was just super cool.
     
  35. One Knight

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    yeah that was definitely the best launch we've seen, watched from the backyard and got everything but the sonic booms. even the wife was excited about it
     
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    i think i'm going to sign up for this

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    because it’s called glasscock?
     
  39. Gallant Knight

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    duh

    but seriously, rice apparently has like dozens of classes each month for adults who want to continue learning
     
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    From that time a turd got loose from the bag during Apollo 10

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  46. WhiskeyDelta

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    The artist rendering that video has watched too many scifi movies, as empty fuel tanks operating in a vacuum are not prone to creating huge fireballs.