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Anonymous Mon 30 Nov 10:06:21 2015 No.7689831 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>7689862 >>7690536

So what do you guys feel about the JWST?
I think it's pretty cool how it could possibly tell us what exoplanets atmospheres are like (which could possibly show us a truly earth like planet)

It's basically hubble, but better.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 30 Nov 2015 10:26:13 No.7689847 Report

Quoted By: >>7689857 >>7690088 >>7690775 >>7690986 >>7691004

Please dont blow up please dont blow up please dont blow up

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 30 Nov 2015 10:36:11 No.7689857 Report

Quoted By: >>7690775

>>7689847
>blows up

"Well boys, i guess we will have to wait a decade and a half because the NASA budget is abysmal"

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 30 Nov 2015 10:44:36 No.7689862 Report

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>>7689831
honestly i love hexagons (my favorite shape) and i love that the JWST's mirror is going to be made of hexagons

obviously the science it will do is important, but i'm more distracted by how neat it looks

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 30 Nov 2015 13:26:12 No.7689962 Report

Quoted By: >>7689975

>>7689862
I got to see the mirrors being unpacked at Goddard, they look truly magnificent.

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Anonymous Mon 30 Nov 2015 13:46:24 No.7689975 Report

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>>7689962
lucky

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Anonymous Mon 30 Nov 2015 14:14:45 No.7689997 Report

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When does this get launched?

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Anonymous Mon 30 Nov 2015 15:34:13 No.7690088 Report

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>>7689847

that would be so sad, is the probability that high?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 30 Nov 2015 15:50:07 No.7690103 Report

Quoted By: >>7690210 >>7690949

>>7690088
Its supposed to be launched on an Ariane 5, and i think those have a rather high safety record. However there are quite a lot of things that can get fucked after launch as well. The sun-shade has to unfold, and the mirrors have to unfold, adjust them self and so on. Also, its at the L2 point, somewhat like 1,5 million km from earth, so sending anything up to fix anything ala Hubble is out of the question for now(maybe when/if Orion-SLS ever becomes operational). But they did manage to land a one-ton car on Mars, so I have high hopes!

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Anonymous Mon 30 Nov 2015 17:22:59 No.7690210 Report

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>>7690103
Seeing the testing facilities in person on foot made me a true believer, at least extrapolating from what I saw at Goddard. Their absolutely awe inspiring vacuum chamber towering multiple stories over makes you believe in them. I'd guess it was over 30m in diameter and at least 100m in height, but I couldn't see the top properly. Just everything was wow. Acoustic testing room, etc.

Violent Simians Guy

Violent Simians Guy Mon 30 Nov 2015 20:12:34 No.7690536 Report

Quoted By: >>7691104

>>7689831
>which could possibly show us a truly earth like planet

And what possible difference would that make? The nearest possible such world (not that planets themselves are economically viable targets) would be over 4 lightyears away, in the Centauri system. Even if we expended trillions of dollars of wealth to construct a ship that managed to somehow transit that distance at an average 10% LS, it's still a 43-yr, one-way trip, using communication lags of 4.3 years.

Other than academic interest, finding out about nearby stellar systems is just a waste of money.

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Anonymous Mon 30 Nov 2015 22:04:21 No.7690767 Report

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>hubble but better, hubble but better, hubble but better.
Epoch of reionisation !!

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Anonymous Mon 30 Nov 2015 22:09:00 No.7690775 Report

Quoted By: >>7690975

>>7689847
>>7689857
Could they insure it?

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Anonymous Mon 30 Nov 2015 23:16:54 No.7690949 Report

Quoted By: >>7690982

>>7690103
>70 consecutive successes
>last failure was 14 years ago
>Ariane decides to blow up JUST for this one

i can't even

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 30 Nov 2015 23:26:45 No.7690975 Report

Quoted By: >>7691052 >>7691069

>>7690775
Who's going to insure a rocket that will probably blow up

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Anonymous Mon 30 Nov 2015 23:31:49 No.7690982 Report

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>>7690949
I honestly refuse to believe this will happen. Imagine the pressure on the flight team though. How do these people get any sleep before a launch like this is beyond me.

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Anonymous Mon 30 Nov 2015 23:33:06 No.7690986 Report

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>>7689847

Funny, I was just dwelling on this.

I think I might break down if I watched that happen live.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 30 Nov 2015 23:40:32 No.7691004 Report

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>>7689847
>>7689847
Not a chance.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 30 Nov 2015 23:57:25 No.7691052 Report

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>>7690975
SLS

Guaranteed not to explode, because it is too expensive to launch in the first place.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 01 Dec 2015 00:03:58 No.7691069 Report

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>>7690975
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_insurance
It's a real thing, I just don't know if anyone's willing to do it for a project this big.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 01 Dec 2015 00:28:10 No.7691104 Report

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>>7690536
>And what possible difference would that make?
>other than academic interest.

You just answered your own question.

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