The James Webb space telescope

[MrHammy]

That would be amazing

 

[Ratty]

Good Plan..... 11am though......

 

[eT]

i think the launch is after 12

 

[psychedelvic]

Affirmative.

 

[psychedelvic]

Apparently it is now Christmas Day launch.

 

[eT]

Apparently it is now Christmas Day launch.

damn... i just noticed that on the bbc.

I am still watching

 

[basshead]

same time?

 

[eT]

Yep! December 25, 2021 07:20am EST (2021-12-25 12:20 GMT)

According to this site: https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/countdown.html

 

[psychedelvic]

Santa will notice the traffic this year.

 

[eT]

Looks like the launch is on.

 

[psychedelvic]

Godspeed

 

[MrHammy]

 

[psychedelvic]

Early reports indicate someone has left the Lens cap on JWST.

 

[psychedelvic]

The relief & joy is palpable. Textbook launch.

 

[NabLa]

High bandwidth antenna deployed correctly. Still plenty of clenched anuses in mission control, but I'm ecstatic it's going by the numbers so far.

 

[whitedog]

 

[psychedelvic]

You can see the Pub from here.

 

[psychedelvic]

All assembled ready for focusing.

 

[psychedelvic]

“There’s Klingons on the Starboard bow, starboard bow…”

 

[NabLa]

The telescope itself is now fully un-origamied. The mirror segments have to be carefully aligned now, which will take weeks. In a couple of weeks, it'll finally be at L2 where it'll remain until its orbit decays into the sun in a few million years

Where Is Webb? NASA/Webb

During Webb's launch, deployment and commissioning, 'WhereIsWebb' tracked Webb's 'flight' to L2 orbit, its state and progress during its deployment and commissioning process, and finally the release of its first images. This process is now complete. During this process, the page constantly...

www.jwst.nasa.gov