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Old 18-10-2021, 04:24 PM
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James Webb nearly ready

I thought someone may be interested.

https://youtu.be/x4RrMR6MYjY

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Old 19-10-2021, 08:39 AM
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I'm looking forward to the launch and deployment.
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Old 19-10-2021, 08:48 AM
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There is also a good article in Australian Sky & Telescope Nov/Dec 2021.
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Quite a remarkable story...an unbelievably complex operation and mission (not to mention cost ), fingers crossed

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Old 19-10-2021, 09:13 AM
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Quite a remarkable story...an unbelievably complex operation and mission (not to mention cost ), fingers crossed

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They should make it into a movie staring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney ... and I won't go to it ... just like Gravity.
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Commissioning any remote telescope can be tricky but this is on another level of difficulty and insanity. If the deployment goes well and the instrument provides usable data it will go up there in the annuls of human achievement along side putting the Huygens lander on Titan, landing a Volkswagen sized rover on Mars twice and landing probes and returning samples on small bodies within the solar system. I am sure the entire team will be very nervous leading up to deployment.
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