Space Fan News #6: James Webb Space Telescope Mission Update
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@supergsx It does.
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@KelzLife oh... that sucks.
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@supergsx Unfortunately, yes.
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@KelzLife So it's going to run out of fuel?
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@supergsx he said it; liquid helium.
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The Spacefan numbers are incorrect. The original JWST contract, as described by the September 11th, 2002 New York Times (NYT) article "Next Generation Space Telescope Chosen to Peer into Past" was to cost $824.8 million USD and expected to launch in 2010.
The prices have been rising (now 6.5B) and the launch date has been pushing out more and more, (now to 2018) ever since.
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a worthy successor to Hubble
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Just wanted to say i have loved your videos, more informative then a lot of 'specialist' websites. I also wanted to ask do you work as an astronemer and if so how did you get into it?
rei154 1 year ago 2
@rei154 I am a software engineer/technologist at the Space Telescope Science Institute. I work with astronomical data and write software to process/calibrate it.
I got into it over 20 years ago as a newbie software engineer.
One day, I'll make a vid about it.
tdarnell 1 year ago 7
how much is a telescope? like a good telescope. people always look up the stars etc..every Friday and saturday nights, up on the hills. i never really had a chance to go up there because i always work til saturday night.
CandelaSiNN 1 year ago
@CandelaSiNN Expect to pay about $500.00 for a decent scope. I highly recommend the Orion and Meade Dobsonians for beginners. You sometimes see their ads on my videos.
tdarnell 1 year ago 2
So being that this new telescope is about 7x bigger, how much further is it designed to look into space?
305sFinestt 1 year ago
@305sFinestt It's primarily designed to look at the time of the universe between 400,000 and 600 million years after the big bang. A time when the first stars and galaxies were forming.
tdarnell 1 year ago 2