After years of planning the JWST is scheduled to launch tomorrow.
https://www.jwst.nasa.gov/
Hubble's progress was pretty amazing 30 years ago, so I am looking forward to what we will learn and see from this new space telescope iteration.
The launch was a success! The JWST is on its way to its solar orbit, which will put it about 1 million miles away from earth.
Here a link to a NASA page to track the progress of JWST as it travels towards its final solar orbit:
https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/whereIsWebb.html
Quote from: stillgriller on December 25, 2021, 04:12:07 PM
Here a link to a nifty NASA page to track the progress of JWST as it travels towards its final solar orbit:
https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/whereIsWebb.html
Thanks for sharing!
That's amazing it's traveling at 4,905 mph.
I'm lucky to be a small part of the project. Here's a picture of me and JWST when it was in the clean room at Goddard Space Flight Center. It was a great launch.
Looks like everything is going according to plan.
Quote from: dwnthehatch on December 26, 2021, 05:26:07 PM
I'm lucky to be a small part of the project. Here's a picture of me and JWST when it was in the clean room at Goddard Space Flight Center. It was a great launch.
My apologies for the late response in this, but that is awesome right there. I work right next to your counterparts who do orbital safety analysis for the JWST and they were excited to have it in their custody.
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One of the first images taken after initial alignment of the 18 mirror segments. So much more to come!
I think that is so cool !
So far so good, systems are being tested.