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  • James Webb Telescope

    From seeLive@21:2/128 to All on Mon Jan 24 16:50:24 2022
    It has arrived!! So exciting!!!


    (,``,"> rusty sez... Re-livin' the dream...

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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to seeLive on Tue Jan 25 17:19:53 2022
    On 24 Jan 2022 at 04:50p, seeLive pondered and said...

    It has arrived!! So exciting!!!

    Cool! I heard it was going to do the last burn to get to L2 and assume that went OK?

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  • From seeLive@21:2/128 to Avon on Wed Jan 26 16:28:23 2022
    On 25 Jan 2022, Avon said the following...
    Cool! I heard it was going to do the last burn to get to L2 and assume that went OK?

    Yes! Deploying the mirrors, the heat shield... everything went perfectly last I saw... can't wait 'til summer!!


    (,``,"> rusty sez... Re-livin' the dream...

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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to seeLive on Fri Jan 28 17:00:14 2022
    On 26 Jan 2022 at 04:28p, seeLive pondered and said...

    Yes! Deploying the mirrors, the heat shield... everything went perfectly last I saw... can't wait 'til summer!!

    Yay, yes me too this has been a cool project to follow and will continue to be so.

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  • From InfectedBootSector@21:4/174 to Avon on Sat Feb 12 19:59:43 2022
    The first engineering images used to help calibrate the mirrors were published earlier this week. There is a primary mirror "selfie" published with those as well. It's all over the news, so I won't repeat the articles, but worth a quick Google search and read on NASA's blog. There is a neat interview video posted, too. Pretty amazing (and weird) to be part of this every day and see
    stuff on mainstream media. It's surreal.


    On 28 Jan 2022, Avon said the
    following...

    On 26 Jan 2022 at 04:28p, seeLive pondered and said...

    Yes! Deploying the mirrors, the heat shield... everything went perfec last I saw... can't wait 'til summer!!

    Yay, yes me too this has been a cool project to follow and will continue to be so.

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    ... A Meteor is an example of a rock star.

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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to InfectedBootSector on Sun Feb 13 10:43:13 2022
    On 12 Feb 2022 at 07:59p, InfectedBootSector pondered and said...

    The first engineering images used to help calibrate the mirrors were published earlier this week. There is a primary mirror "selfie"
    published with those as well. It's all over the news, so I won't repeat the articles, but worth a quick Google search and read on NASA's blog. There is a neat interview video posted, too. Pretty amazing (and weird) to be part of this every day and see stuff on mainstream media. It's surreal.

    cool thanks for letting me know, i had not caught up on this.. i agree its a neat time to be alive to see all of this happening

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