The James Webb Space Telescope and stuff

[RCgothic]

Deployment is the riskiest part of the mission and it's already hard enough to do once. It's too fragile to boost deployed. Nobody wants to deploy, undeploy, deploy again if it can possibly be avoided.

Also low-mass deployment systems don't necessarily work in reverse.

[RCgothic]

 

 

[NFUN]

please

[JoeSchmuckatelli]

Every time I see this topic pop up... I get excited. 

 

 

 

 

But then I look at the date of the OP.

[Shpaget]

So, T-1 year?

I'll start sowing the corn. Should be ready to harvest and made to pop in time for another delay.

Just kidding, don't crucify me. They should take their time and make sure it works.

[NFUN]

18 hours ago, JoeSchmuckatelli said:

Every time I see this topic pop up... I get excited. 

 

 

 

 

But then I look at the date of the OP.

yeppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp

[Codraroll]

At some point, I almost wonder what there is to stop them from making two dozen of these a little cheaper, and just sending them up until one of them works.

[Dfthu]

Webb’s Golden Mirror Wings Open One Last Time on Earth | NASA

Edited May 16, 2021 by Dfthu

[insert_name]

Launch has been pushed back a month due to issues with ariane 5

https://spacenews.com/jwst-launch-slips-to-november/

[southernplain]

What is another month after fifteen years of delays?

[JoeSchmuckatelli]

Grumble - I fear every time this pops up.  For good reason, apparently.

Few missions have had my interest, longer.

[Spaceception]

Well.. At least it has nothing to do with the telescope itself.

I really want to see this launch, I want to start seeing headlines about JWST discoveries, like we were getting with Kepler all the time.

[Beccab]

Remember that the Ariane 5 has to do two launches with the redesigned fairing before being allowed to fly the JWST, so if any of those has problem or just slips the JWST will, once again, slip as well

[JoeSchmuckatelli]

2 hours ago, Beccab said:

Remember that the Ariane 5 has to do two launches with the redesigned fairing before being allowed to fly the JWST, so if any of those has problem or just slips the JWST will, once again, slip as well

STOP IT!

 

STOP 

STOP 

STOP

STOP

STOPIT!!!!

[Scotius]

Calm down, brother. Calm down.

I feel your pain. We all do.

But patience is the most important virtue any space nerd needs

At this point, probably only nuclear fusion enthusiasts have it worse than we do.

[JoeSchmuckatelli]

XD

[benzman]

There is an old joke about a women saying the her marriage has never been consummated because her husband is an aerospace engineer and all he ever does is tell how how great it will be one day.

[MKI]

I saw this telescope a year or so back at the facility for open  house, as I live close enough, and knew someone who works at Northrop. 

It was interesting how big it is, but I mainly found it incredible as its so gosh darn complicated, so far behind schedule, and just more or less sitting in a large closet waiting for more tests/other delays. 

 

[JoeSchmuckatelli]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/arstechnica.com/science/2021/08/nasa-science-chief-says-its-ok-to-be-worried-or-terrified-about-webb/%3famp=1

"One more Arianne 5 launch must go well..." 

So, September - and then the tension can really begin 

Edited August 4, 2021 by JoeSchmuckatelli

[Beccab]

https://www.universetoday.com/152263/james-webbs-upper-stage-is-off-to-the-launch-site/

[Scotius]

One step closer.

[Beccab]

1 minute ago, Scotius said:

One step closer.

To the scariest spaceflight related moment of the last 20 years

[Scotius]

True that. IMO only Hubble launch was close in the level of tension. ISS was even more important, but it was launched piece by piece.

[JoeSchmuckatelli]

10 hours ago, Beccab said:

https://www.universetoday.com/152263/james-webbs-upper-stage-is-off-to-the-launch-site/

Except now I cannot stop thinking about it being Hurricane season in the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico. 

:-[ 

[Silavite]

4 hours ago, JoeSchmuckatelli said:

Except now I cannot stop thinking about it being Hurricane season in the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico. 

:-[ 

The chance of a hurricane striking French Guiana is quite low due to the fact that it's almost at the equator.

Spoiler

Source

Tropical cyclones need to be some distance from the equator to form because the rotation associated with their structure initially derives from the Coriolis force, and the Coriolis force is zero at the equator. In addition, it would be unlikely for an extant tropical system to move south towards French Guiana due to the beta effect (on slides 11 - 18).

Starbase, on the other hand... well, it's only a matter of time, and those tents don't look very windproof.