WISE Launch

[thegreeensky]

simply beautiful.. nice launch!

[andreamason21]

cute .. like your clip .. keep it up =)



[kieranj1989]

Great Launch :-)

[BunkerkindCAIN]

its makes infraret pictrures of the space around earth. nothing to do with climate u idiot!

[ceridan01]

is this the telescope thats supposed to detect atmosphere of other planets?

[Bruna5877]

muito  tenso !!

[1RadicalOne]

As beautiful and dramatic as this is, there must be a better launch mechanism, even in this gravity.

[Rapsoloko93]

mas les valía estudiar otras fuentes de energía, que hace falta.

[dartiu]

This is actually very scary. They are looking for the Sun's twin sister. The brown dwarf can only be detected using infrared. They've known about this for some time. Some refer to it as Planet X or Nibiru. They are not looking for asteroids...they are looking/tracking the brown dwarf. And it cannot be stopped or altered. If this thing comes close to us..heaven help us.

[LordAfwa]

BZZT!! WRONG answer!!There is no Nabiru. They are not looking for something that isn't there.

Anyone who believes in that stupid 2012 crap and fantasy invisible planets do not know anything about astronomical science.

ALL (and I mean ALL) astronomical objects of any significant size can be detected by its gravitational effect without the need to launch ships to look for it, in infra-red or any other spectral frequency.

Once more for the dummies. There is NO Nabiru!!

[Tenocticatl]

There is a brown dwarf though: that chauffeur guy from Me, Myself & Irene :-)

A noble effort, but I think you're wasting your time replying to folks like this, LordAfwa. He/she will just think you're brainwashed by the government or something. Logic and evidence are no match for a conspiracy theorist (or 'believer' if you will).

BTW, I read in the paper the other day that that whole 2012 thing is due to a typo: the mayan calender doesn't run out 'till 2120, when it enters the era 13.0.0.1 :-)

[diah4]

That's so unbelievable awesome.

[FieldMajor76]

It would be cool if you saw a large forsterite crystal that split the spectrum behind it making the spectrometer obsolete.

[madefromcash]

the delta rockets look so badass

[kuronekocfu]

The dynamics of this launch look so perfect that it's like turning the key and starting your car on. Now let's see what Wise can do.

[videolover202]

Great Project. I can't wait to see what NASA will discover!! :)

[tamman2000]

@Tenocticatl

I really shouldn't be dong this (getting into an argument on youtube).

You are so wrong about asteroid detection. If we detect them early (which is the goal of the asteroid detection part of WISE) we can get years (even decades, or centuries) of warning about potential impactors. I am not just some guy commenting on youtube, I actually work in this field. You can believe me if you want, I am not going to stick around and argue about this on here.

[kevbis]

I got into a few arguments on youtube ya it sucks...but your right and now find them asteroids!!!

[Tenocticatl]

okay my mistake... But even then, how could they stop such a thing? I know there's some ideas on the subject, like wrapping the rock in solar sail, or using something heavy to pull it off course, but nothing that's actually been tested. Again, let me know if I'm wrong on this one.

My point is, space exploration is pretty fundamental science, for the most part. As such, it's rather pointless to discuss its usefulness as a whole. I hope we can agree on that.

[tamman2000]

I am shocked to see what looks like reasonable conversation on youtube.

If we only had a few months warning, then yeah, we are probably screwed, but if we had a few years, don't you think the combined efforts of the entire world could do something? It isn't like we would only have a few people working on this. Work on all other things could be put on the back burner (if we are all dead, they are unimportant).

[tamman2000]

It took us about 8 years to go from no manned space flight to the moon. Using 1960's tech!  And there are a lot of theories on how you would divert an asteroid. Don't you think that it would be worth trying them if we thought that there was a strong chance of an impact?

I am confident that if we had 5 years to a decade (or more) warning, we could figure this one out...

[Tenocticatl]

Oh, I'm all for that. I'm not too keen on humanity "doing the dinosaur thing" so to speak. But there's a lot of tech that would still need to be developed, which most people won't consider necessary unless we've got a left-over Alp hurtling towards us. And I'd rather be prepared in advance. The problem with space, I think, is that many people think it's a waist of resources, partly perhaps because its goals are too vague. Take the Mars-direct plan (youtube it) vs NASA's constellation programme.

[Tenocticatl]

And other than that, I simply think space exploration is really cool and I'd like to see the various agencies and companies make the most of it.

Something that bothers me is the international competition, especially where the moon is concerned. These things should be used to strengthen international cooperation, and maybe provide a sense of unity between countries. This might actually deepen a feeling of purpose, and thus increase support for space flight. But that's just me. :-)

[DenisGruv]

cool

[mcds87]

This is awesome i been waiting for this to happen cant wait to see what we will fine

[SomeStylistGuy]

Are you guys kidding with the "money" issue??? Why aren't we funding this with exTREME priority? You know... improve the human race? Grow and learn?

[MewFushisDad]

I wish that we had never stopped going to the moon.

[szaboistvan007]

It's not just about Iraq and all the other things. It's about wasting money on things that are not really necessary, and not solving other problems that are more important. About the asteroids... I think there are a lot of stuff up there that can detect such things (like Hubble), so why sending another expensive "tool" to do what have been done before? But as I said, I'm not against this stuff, I was just wondering that all the americans let the government spend their money to whatever they like

[szaboistvan007]

P.S. : and don't forget it's an economic crisis right now...

[0omatt]

educated analysis, ticho brahe....NOT!

[sorry8140]

so, u disagree with the WISE program, yet u seem very interested in it? i think u wasted ur time posting a comment.

[375GTB]

You ever hear of ASTRONOMY!! In the IR??

I didn't think so......

J.C.

[shpazshpaz]

you are totally right, a lot of the money is wasted on researches that aren't important at the time. Problems like pollution and cancer must be made first priority. Spending money on space exploring is not a waste in my opinion.

[rayman4449]

Congratulations NASA on the successful launch.

[P0P357UR3]

Just doesn't give the same effect.

[szaboistvan007]

Don't get me wrong, but wasting a lot of money to see what's up in the sky? :D Do we really need this? Maybe that money would helped to rebuild what the USA destroied in Iraq or something :D (I will get a lot of thumbsdown for this but that's the way I see it :P)

[samsneed7734]

Thank god it's not up to you then.

[saberblock]

It's not like they're spending lots of money - just look at those simulation graphics, my old ZX81 could do better :)

It'd make more sense just NOT to destroy half the middle east - that way we wouldn't have to pay to rebuild it!

[Gaeilge2000]

Perhaps knowing what's up there will help us to realise what in blazes we r doing down here.

[lolcats439]

I thumbs-upped you even though I disagree. It would have been FAR better to simply not invade Iraq in the first place. Also, NASA gets only 18.7 billion dollars per year (many say it isn't funded enough) compared to the Iraq war which has cost more than a trillion dollars so far since 2003 (not to mention Afghanistan). Also, NASA isn't there to kill people, but to give us valuable scientific data about the Earth, the Solar system and the Universe.

[dcizerle]

amen.

[shpazshpaz]

you cant be more right my friend. Im happy to know that people like you still excite. Wars expenses are huge. Governments can always finance more useful research but they spend their money on military ( opportunity cost) . what a shame, what a shame.

[pwnage0013]

as soon as people stop being evil, maybe that will stop too.

[DaViDeBaSsOliNi0]

Beautiful!

[TheDeadlyKind]

What, is the escape velocity of an unladen swallow?

[kdawgiedawg]

south African or European?

[Tenocticatl]

doesn't matter. escape velocity is about mach 24, if I remember right.

And yes, I get the Python reference :-)

[ArtCore5]

Congratulations NASA, nice to see everything went well.

[jorge10928]

I can't wait to see what amazing things this spacecraft will uncover! :D

Nicely done NASA. <3!

[RoboTekno]

AMERICA!! xD

...and other countries who helped :P

[wWwGh0sTwWw]

what surprises might the we find out throughout the next year

[rlewis1946]

It's a great day to be an astronomer! Congratulations NASA and to all who made this observatory possible..

Think of all the discoveries that lie ahead....

RL

[kris1991]

Awesome job! Keep those space missions going!

[gforce527]

Looks good. Nice to see all those years of effort get over the first hurdle.

[ananiasacts]

Now we're just a few months away from finding out if there's an asteroid or comet with our name on it. Thank goodness.

[f00tballfever]

lol

[Mobstersoverdrive]

Epic.

[juggag]

WOW! nc job again NASA!, keep on,

[john123wayne]

awesome.

simply awesome. (happy)