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NASA's Ambitious New Space Telescope Passes Critical Test
space.com ^ | 05/01/10

Posted on 05/02/2010 5:36:26 PM PDT by KevinDavis

NASA's hotly-anticipated new space observatory has passed its most significant mission milestone yet – a critical design review that sets the stage for a planned 2014 launch.

This means that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) a huge infrared telescope designed to peer farther back into the universe's history than ever before, has met all science and engineering requirements for its upcoming mission, NASA scientists said.

(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: space
Good, can't wait till we find a new home for us..
1 posted on 05/02/2010 5:36:27 PM PDT by KevinDavis
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2 posted on 05/02/2010 5:37:16 PM PDT by KevinDavis (Jesus Saves... Allah Kills...)
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To: KevinDavis

I assume this isn’t the balloon launched telescope from Australia because that NASA experiment failed miserably.


3 posted on 05/02/2010 5:38:19 PM PDT by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards.com << Get your science fiction and fiction test marketed)
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To: GeronL; All

No...


4 posted on 05/02/2010 5:38:47 PM PDT by KevinDavis (Jesus Saves... Allah Kills...)
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To: KevinDavis

Did you see that video though? :)

Crushed that vehicle, people running for their lives.

Not the best NASA launch.


5 posted on 05/02/2010 5:46:55 PM PDT by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards.com << Get your science fiction and fiction test marketed)
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To: GeronL; All

Well sometimes things don’t go well..


6 posted on 05/02/2010 5:49:58 PM PDT by KevinDavis (Jesus Saves... Allah Kills...)
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To: KevinDavis

Yes, but that was NASA. NASA! Thank goodness it wasn’t live on all the networks. It might be embarrassing.


7 posted on 05/02/2010 6:09:09 PM PDT by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards.com << Get your science fiction and fiction test marketed)
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To: GeronL

Not the worst one either.


8 posted on 05/02/2010 6:13:15 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: driftdiver

Can’t wait until we launch CAIR-1 into the Van Allen Belt.


9 posted on 05/02/2010 6:16:39 PM PDT by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards.com << Get your science fiction and fiction test marketed)
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To: GeronL

Here’s that failed balloon launch video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SC3yQuotbeQ

Just park your cars and ground suppport equipment exactly downwind from the launch point so the payload has a better chance at destroying things if the launch goes haywire.


10 posted on 05/02/2010 6:27:14 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (?)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

NASA sent their B-Team to Australia, apparently.


11 posted on 05/02/2010 6:30:04 PM PDT by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards.com << Get your science fiction and fiction test marketed)
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To: KevinDavis
I still remember when the Hubble was launched without a complete test of it's mirrors. This country lost years and $$ correcting the problem. I'm hoping history does not repeat itself with the James Webb (no relation).
12 posted on 05/02/2010 6:35:23 PM PDT by Artemis Webb (DeMint 2012----Remember May 20th is "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day")
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To: Artemis Webb

Hopefully the testing will get fully funded on JWST. If they blow it on this one, it’s not built to be serviceable, and it’ll be waaay out there at the L2 point, where no manned system in service or planned can reach it.

http://www.jwst.nasa.gov/orbit.html

Oh, wait, they’ll just use a robot, right? 8P
Maybe 3 of them. They can name the service robots Larry, Shemp, and Moe. One will have a ladder. :D


13 posted on 05/02/2010 11:39:47 PM PDT by saundby
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