Countdown to the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope

[jstern]

It's finally happening boys.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aICaAEXDJQQ

Watch it live.


https://youtu.be/zJpJ3nn_klc

The countdown (https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/countdown.html).

17 year in development. At a cost of 10 billion dollars. It's finally going to launch. Will it succeed?

[highwhey]

interesting, can you further explain this?

[bladefd]

interesting, can you further explain this?

One of the greatest inventions ever.

It is much larger than Hubble and will be able to pick up light from around 100 million years after the big bang so the first galaxies/stars. It will also be stationed a million miles away from the Earth to avoid heat & light from Earth/sun/moon altogether. The satellite needs to reach very low temperatures so it can pick up extremely faint signals.

It will take a month to reach its position, which is 4x farther than where the moon is. Then it will have to open & unfurl to full size, which is the scariest moment. Everything has to go right for it to unfurl completely or it's $10 billion garbage. It's too far for us to go repair it a million miles away so it has to unfurl properly.

[ThRRR3tardSatan]

One of the greatest inventions ever.

It is much larger than Hubble and will be able to pick up light from around 100 million years after the big bang so the first galaxies/stars. It will also be stationed a million miles away from the Earth to avoid heat & light from Earth/sun/moon altogether. The satellite needs to reach very low temperatures so it can pick up extremely faint signals.

It will take a month to reach its position, which is 4x farther than where the moon is. Then it will have to open & unfurl to full size, which is the scariest moment. Everything has to go right for it to unfurl completely or it's $10 billion garbage. It's too far for us to go repair it a million miles away so it has to unfurl properly.

You let retards inject you with garbage.

[jstern]

One of the greatest inventions ever.

It is much larger than Hubble and will be able to pick up light from around 100 million years after the big bang so the first galaxies/stars. It will also be stationed a million miles away from the Earth to avoid heat & light from Earth/sun/moon altogether. The satellite needs to reach very low temperatures so it can pick up extremely faint signals.

It will take a month to reach its position, which is 4x farther than where the moon is. Then it will have to open & unfurl to full size, which is the scariest moment. Everything has to go right for it to unfurl completely or it's $10 billion garbage. It's too far for us to go repair it a million miles away so it has to unfurl properly.

Interesting. Can you elaborate to us a bit further?

And do you consider it a greater invention than the Covid vaccines?

[Chick Stern]

Time travel machines are awesome

[ThRRR3tardSatan]

Time travel machines are awesome

For sure. That way RRR3 can continously go back in time to suck his girlfriend's c0ck before they leave him for another freak that turned half their leg into a peenis.

[jstern]

The launch happened a little over 5 hours ago. The space telescope is currently about 71,500 miles away from Earth, traveling at 1.7385 miles per second.


Webb's speed is at its peak while connected to the push of the launch vehicle. Its speed begins to slow rapidly after separation as it coasts up hill climbing the gravity ridge from Earth to its orbit around L2. Note on the timeline that Webb reaches the altitude of the moon in ~2.5 days (which is ~25% of its trip in terms of distance but only ~8% in time). See the sections below on Distance to L2 and Arrival at L2 for more information on the distance travelled to L2.

You can check out the stats on this page (https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/whereIsWebb.html). Where soon you will also be able to checkout the current temperatures on the hot and cold side.

I could elaborate a little bit further, but I'm just not interested in doing so.

[highwhey]

The launch happened a little over 5 hours ago. The space telescope is currently about 71,500 miles away from Earth, traveling at 1.7385 miles per second.



You can check out the stats on this page (https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/whereIsWebb.html). Where soon you will also be able to checkout the current temperatures on the hot and cold side.

I could elaborate a little bit further, but I'm just not interested in doing so.

can you please elaborate further on why you're not interested in doing so?

[jstern]

can you please elaborate further on why you're not interested in doing so?

The hot side is currently at 20 & 40 degrees F. While the cold side is currently at -71 and -244 degrees F.

Its cruising speed has gone down to .5530 miles per hour, due to the gravity of the Earth. Kind of like the concept of what goes up must come down. It's already about 30 Earths away. And about .412 the sun's diameter.

[Jasper]

hopefully the scope doesn't look back at earth to see how humans are destroying the planet.

If you think not , take a look at Texas highways ,, they look like a landfill, just like the pacific ocean garbage dump

[jstern]

I just randomly decided to check, and telescope just reached it's location on L2, like right now. Great timing by me.


The hot side is currently at 20 & 40 degrees F. While the cold side is currently at -71 and -244 degrees F.

Its cruising speed has gone down to .5530 miles per hour, due to the gravity of the Earth. Kind of like the concept of what goes up must come down. It's already about 30 Earths away. And about .412 the sun's diameter.

And I just want to correct what I said in this post. The telescope was about 45 Earths away, not 30.

The telescope is now at -347 F. With the side facing the sun at 129 F.