Decades of tension, debate, and determination have led to this moment, as the James Webb Space Telescope begins its million-mile journey into deep space.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/at-long-last-the-james-webb- space-telescope-is-ready-to-launch

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Hello Erich B.!

** On Thursday 23.12.21 - 16:06, Erich B. wrote to All:

Decades of tension, debate, and determination have led to
this moment, as the James Webb Space Telescope begins its
million-mile journey into deep space.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/at-
long-last-the-james -webb- space-telescope-is-ready-to-
launch

What is that one supposed to do besides litter space with more
junk? :/ What is the "debate", and why "tension"?

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Hi August,

On 2021-12-23 19:55:00, you wrote to Erich B.:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/at-
long-last-the-james -webb- space-telescope-is-ready-to-
launch

What is that one supposed to do besides litter space with more
junk? :/ What is the "debate", and why "tension"?

It won't be in orbit around the earth, so no pollution of orbit space.
It's kind of the successor of the Hubble space telescope.
It will see things never seen before.
It has cost about 10 Billion so far. 10 times more than estimated.
Because of it's place in space it can't be repaired once launched.
Because of it's size it's folded up inside the launch rocket, and needs to be deployed after launch.
So a lot can go wrong, and for that price, and the possible return in science data is so high, people are very anxious/exited about the launch, and deployement fase...

Bye, Wilfred.

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Hi August,

On 2021-12-24 12:14:24, I wrote to you:

What is that one supposed to do besides litter space with more
junk? :/ What is the "debate", and why "tension"?

It won't be in orbit around the earth, so no pollution of orbit space. It's kind of the successor of the Hubble space telescope.
It will see things never seen before.
It has cost about 10 Billion so far. 10 times more than estimated. Because of it's place in space it can't be repaired once launched. Because of it's size it's folded up inside the launch rocket, and needs to
be deployed after launch. So a lot can go wrong, and for that price, and the possible return in science data is so high, people are very anxious/exited about the launch, and deployement fase...

Launch was a success! It's now in its preliminary orbit around the earth...

Bye, Wilfred.

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Hi Wilfred...

Hi August,
On 2021-12-24 12:14:24, I wrote to you:

It won't be in orbit around the earth, so no pollution of orbit space.
It's kind of the successor of the Hubble space telescope.
It will see things never seen before.
It has cost about 10 Billion so far. 10 times more than estimated.
Because of it's place in space it can't be repaired once launched.
Because of it's size it's folded up inside the launch rocket, and needs to
be deployed after launch. So a lot can go wrong, and for that price, and
the possible return in science data is so high, people are very
anxious/exited about the launch, and deployement fase...

Launch was a success! It's now in its preliminary orbit around the earth...
Bye, Wilfred.

When are the first results (data, images) supposed to occur?

Ciao!
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Hi August,

On 2021-12-25 16:59:40, you wrote to me:

Launch was a success! It's now in its preliminary orbit around the
earth... Bye, Wilfred.

When are the first results (data, images) supposed to occur?

In about half a year...

Btw: It's now already way past (@48km's) the orbit of geostationairy satelites (which is about 35,7 km above the earths surface).

Bye, Wilfred.

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Hi All,

On 2021-12-25 15:24:15, I wrote to August Abolins:

Btw: It's now already way past (@48km's) the orbit of geostationairy satelites (which is about 35,7 km above the earths surface).

It's now, a day after launch, almost 240 km from earth. That's not even half way the distance to the moon. And about 16,5% of the distance to it's destination point in space. It will take about 29 days to get there. It will take so long to get there, because there is no propulsion anymore (except for some short burns for course corrections). It's in the balistic fase on it's path to it's destination, and because of the gravitational pull of the earth it's constantly slowing down slightly. It speed now is about 1.7 km/s relative to earth, while during the launch fase it topped at about 10 km/s...

If you're interested you can follow it's journey for yourself on this website:

https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/whereIsWebb.html


Bye, Wilfred.

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Hello Wilfred van Velzen!

** On Sunday 26.12.21 - 13:35, Wilfred van Velzen wrote to All:

* Originally in CHAT
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* Crossposted in ASTRONET

FYI, it hasn't made it to ASTRONOMY on 396/45 yet.

It's now, a day after launch, almost 240 km from earth.
That's not even half way the distance to the moon. And
about 16,5% of the distance to it's destination point in
space. It will take about 29 days [..]

The physics/math/mechanics to make all the happen seems
astonishing.

If you're interested you can follow it's journey..

https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/whereIsWebb.html

That's a nice page. It kinda reminds me of the days watching
modem uploads/downloads. :/

But what do the gaps between day 2-3, 9-10, 11-12, 14-15, 26-29
represent?

At about 1.5-2mi/sec hope there isn't any teeny tiny debri that
can render it useless.
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Hi August,

On 2021-12-26 09:48:00, you wrote to me:

* Originally in CHAT
* Crossposted in ASTRONOMY
* Crossposted in ASTRONET

FYI, it hasn't made it to ASTRONOMY on 396/45 yet.

That's odd, because he is connected to that area on my system, so he got it direct. (And my outbound is empty)

It's now, a day after launch, almost 240 km from earth.

^^^^^^
That should have been: 240K km! :/

That's not even half way the distance to the moon. And
about 16,5% of the distance to it's destination point in
space. It will take about 29 days [..]

The physics/math/mechanics to make all the happen seems
astonishing.

Indeed.

If you're interested you can follow it's journey..

https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/whereIsWebb.html

That's a nice page. It kinda reminds me of the days watching
modem uploads/downloads. :/

That also took days? ;-)

But what do the gaps between day 2-3, 9-10, 11-12, 14-15, 26-29
represent?

I don't know, I was wondering about that too. And it doesn't seem to correlate too well to the deployment steps...

At about 1.5-2mi/sec hope there isn't any teeny tiny debri that
can render it useless.

There's always that tiny, tiny, tiny risk. But it's already well beyond the "commercial" earth orbits, so that debri wouldn't be human made...

Bye, Wilfred.

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Hello Wilfred van Velzen!

** On Sunday 26.12.21 - 17:06, Wilfred van Velzen wrote to August Abolins:

FYI, it hasn't made it to ASTRONOMY on 396/45 yet.

That's odd, because he is connected to that area on my system, so he got it direct. (And my outbound is empty)

I'm not getting a connection at 396/45 in the last couple days
either. :( When was the last time you connected?

It's now, a day after launch, almost 240 km from earth.

^^^^^^
That should have been: 240K km! :/

Somehow I didn't quite even notice that!

https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/whereIsWebb.html

That's a nice page. It kinda reminds me of the days watching
modem uploads/downloads. :/

That also took days? ;-)

So says the fellow who wrote 240 km when he meant 240K km? ;)

The awkwardness of the english language in translation arises.
Of course I meant "the days when we could watch an upload/
download take <a long time | minutes | hours> over dialup. LOL

At about 1.5-2mi/sec hope there isn't any teeny tiny
debri that can render it useless.

There's always that tiny, tiny, tiny risk. But it's
already well beyond the "commercial" earth orbits, so
that debri wouldn't be human made...

Maybe the odd loose screw or bolt that has sprung loose from
the myriad of launches over the decades will cross paths with a
new mission. But then, maybe the gravity of nearby planets or
moons could take care of such problems.
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Hi Wilfred...

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Hi All,
On 2021-12-26 13:35:05, I wrote to you:

It's now, a day after launch, almost 240K km from earth.

Now after almost 2 days and 2 hours of travel it's almost 375K km from earth and it has traveled more then 25% of the distance to it's destination in space.

If you're interested you can follow it's journey for yourself on this
website:
https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/whereIsWebb.html

Bye, Wilfred.

How can it be 25% of it's distance at day 3, when it only enters L2 in it's 29th day?

Ciao!
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Hello Wilfred van Velzen!

** On Sunday 26.12.21 - 23:02, Wilfred van Velzen wrote to August Abolins:

Maybe the odd loose screw or bolt that has sprung loose from
the myriad of launches over the decades will cross paths with a
new mission.

Not that far from earth where the JWST now is (half way the distance to the moon). There is hardly anything there, compared to the low earth orbits.

No Kidding.. I just read THIS in the news:

"China RAGES at Elon Musk after space station near miss with
Starlink satellite

"China complained to UN in a diplomatic note, its space
station had to take evasive action to avoid collision with
satellites launched by the billionaire's Starlink program.
(SCMP)

"Satellites from Starlink Internet Services, had two "close
encounters" with the Chinese space station, according to a
document submitted to the UN Space Agency.

"For safety reasons, the China Space Station implemented
preventive collision avoidance control," China said in the
document.

This is only going to get worse as things get crowded up there.
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Hi August,

On 2021-12-26 11:49:00, you wrote to me:

FYI, it hasn't made it to ASTRONOMY on 396/45 yet.

That's odd, because he is connected to that area on my system, so he
got it direct. (And my outbound is empty)

I'm not getting a connection at 396/45 in the last couple days
either. :(

I see some failed connects in my log, but most of them go ok...

When was the last time you connected?

20 Minutes ago.

At about 1.5-2mi/sec hope there isn't any teeny tiny
debri that can render it useless.

There's always that tiny, tiny, tiny risk. But it's
already well beyond the "commercial" earth orbits, so
that debri wouldn't be human made...

Maybe the odd loose screw or bolt that has sprung loose from
the myriad of launches over the decades will cross paths with a
new mission.

Not that far from earth where the JWST now is (half way the distance to the moon). There is hardly anything there, compared to the low earth orbits.

But then, maybe the gravity of nearby planets or
moons could take care of such problems.

The other planets are way too far to have any measurable influence on objects in an earth orbit...

Bye, Wilfred.

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Hi All,

On 2021-12-26 13:35:05, I wrote to you:

Btw: It's now already way past (@48km's) the orbit of geostationairy
satelites (which is about 35,7 km above the earths surface).

It's now, a day after launch, almost 240K km from earth.

Now after almost 2 days and 2 hours of travel it's almost 375K km from earth and it has traveled more then 25% of the distance to it's destination in space.

If you're interested you can follow it's journey for yourself on this website:

https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/whereIsWebb.html

Bye, Wilfred.

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Hi August,

On 2021-12-27 20:55:34, you wrote to me:

How can it be 25% of it's distance at day 3, when it only enters L2 in it's 29th day?

I explained that in a previous message: It's slowing down...

It will take about 29 days to get there. It will take so long to get there, because there is no propulsion anymore (except for some short
burns for course corrections). It's in the balistic fase on it's path
to it's destination, and because of the gravitational pull of the
earth it's constantly slowing down slightly. Its speed now is about
1.7 km/s relative to earth, while during the launch fase it topped at about 10 km/s...

Bye, Wilfred.

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Hi August,

On 2021-12-27 19:28:00, you wrote to me:

... compared to the low earth orbits.

No Kidding.. I just read THIS in the news:

"China RAGES at Elon Musk after space station near miss with
Starlink satellite

"China complained to UN in a diplomatic note, its space
station had to take evasive action to avoid collision with
satellites launched by the billionaire's Starlink program.
(SCMP)

"Satellites from Starlink Internet Services, had two "close
encounters" with the Chinese space station, according to a
document submitted to the UN Space Agency.

"For safety reasons, the China Space Station implemented
preventive collision avoidance control," China said in the
document.

This is only going to get worse as things get crowded up there.

Yes this is a real problem. Some think the Kessler Syndrome has already begun. :-(

Bye, Wilfred.

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Hi August,

On 2021-12-26 23:02:51, I wrote to you:

I'm not getting a connection at 396/45 in the last couple days
either. :(

I see some failed connects in my log, but most of them go ok...

... But they were getting very slow. I've talked to Marc, and he has (remotely) reset his system, and it seems to be ok now...

Bye, Wilfred.

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Hi August,

On 2021-12-26 17:06:59, I wrote to you:

But what do the gaps between day 2-3, 9-10, 11-12, 14-15, 26-29
represent?

I don't know, I was wondering about that too. And it doesn't seem to correlate too well to the deployment steps...

I just noticed what they mean. It's not about the gaps. It's about the marked bits in blue that are periods in the deployment, as described just below the line. So we are now in the "Sunshield" deployment fase...

Bye, Wilfred.

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Hello Wilfred van Velzen!

** On Tuesday 28.12.21 - 18:16, Wilfred van Velzen wrote to August Abolins:

... I've talked to Marc, and he has
(remotely) reset his system, and it seems to be ok now...

Yes. All systems are a go now. Thx.
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Hi August,

On 2021-12-28 19:56:00, you wrote to me:

... I've talked to Marc, and he has
(remotely) reset his system, and it seems to be ok now...

Yes. All systems are a go now. Thx.

But now there is a different problem:

+ 29 Dec 06:32:04 [14165] call to 1:396/45@fidonet
29 Dec 06:32:04 [14165] trying sursum-corda.com [173.14.206.213]...
? 29 Dec 06:32:22 [14165] connection to 1:396/45@fidonet failed: No route to host

:-(

Bye, Wilfred.

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Hello Wilfred van Velzen!

** On Wednesday 29.12.21 - 11:16, Wilfred van Velzen wrote to August Abolins:

Yes. All systems are a go now. Thx.

But now there is a different problem:

+ 29 Dec 06:32:04 [14165] call to 1:396/45@fidonet
29 Dec 06:32:04 [14165] trying sursum-corda.com [173.14.206.213]...
? 29 Dec 06:32:22 [14165] connection to 1:396/45@fidonet failed: No
route to host

:-(

Something stopped working right here too a few hours later (and
now a few minutes ago) when I made my next poll.

:-(

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Hi August,

On 2021-12-29 07:55:00, you wrote to me:

But now there is a different problem:

+ 29 Dec 06:32:04 [14165] call to 1:396/45@fidonet
29 Dec 06:32:04 [14165] trying sursum-corda.com [173.14.206.213]...
? 29 Dec 06:32:22 [14165] connection to 1:396/45@fidonet failed: No
route to host

:-(

Something stopped working right here too a few hours later (and
now a few minutes ago) when I made my next poll.

He fixed this too. He thinks his cable connection was down...

Bye, Wilfred.

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Hi Wilfred...

Hi August,
On 2021-12-29 07:55:00, you wrote to me:

Something stopped working right here too a few hours later (and
now a few minutes ago) when I made my next poll.

He fixed this too. He thinks his cable connection was down...
Bye, Wilfred.

He fixed that via remote too? Amazing! Anyway.. a poll responded this time. Thx.

Ciao!
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Hi August,

On 2021-12-29 16:35:30, you wrote to me:

Something stopped working right here too a few hours later (and
now a few minutes ago) when I made my next poll.

He fixed this too. He thinks his cable connection was down...

He fixed that via remote too?

... By calling someone at the remote site and have them reset the cable modem? (I don't know, just speculating... ;-))

Amazing! Anyway.. a poll responded this time. Thx.

That would only be possible with an alternative internet connection to the remote site. Otherwise it could be amazing indeed. ;)

Bye, Wilfred.

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Hello Wilfred van Velzen!

** On Wednesday 29.12.21 - 14:36, Wilfred van Velzen wrote to August Abolins:

He fixed that via remote too?

... By calling someone at the remote site and have them
reset the cable modem? (I don't know, just speculating...
;-))

That would only be possible with an alternative internet
connection to the remote site. Otherwise it could be
amazing indeed. ;)

Silicone-based entities are so overrated. The carbon-based
units rule!

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** On Wednesday 29.12.21 - 09:07, August Abolins wrote to Wilfred van Velzen:

Silicone-based entities are so overrated. The carbon-based
units rule!

..except when carbon-based units don't check their spelling
mistakes. Make that "Silicon-based" above. :D

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Hi August,

On 2021-12-29 09:10:00, you wrote to me:

Silicone-based entities are so overrated. The carbon-based
units rule!

..except when carbon-based units don't check their spelling
mistakes. Make that "Silicon-based" above. :D

;-)

Bye, Wilfred.

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Hi All,

On 2021-12-27 15:16:12, I wrote to you:

Btw: It's now already way past (@48km's) the orbit of
geostationairy
satelites (which is about 35,7 km above the earths surface).

It's now, a day after launch, almost 240K km from earth.

Now after almost 2 days and 2 hours of travel it's almost 375K km from earth and it has traveled more then 25% of the distance to it's destination
in space.

Today it passed the 1.000.000 km mark from earth, after 12 days and some hours of flight. "Only about 440.000 km's of flight remain to it's final destination, but that will take another 17 days.

Sofar all deployments (like putting the heatshield and secondary mirror into place) where succesfull! Only the deployment of the Port and Starboard Primary Mirror Wings remain. These last deployments will start tomorrow.

A good place for additional information is: https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/
Most days there are multiple updates of what is going on with the JWST...

Bye, Wilfred.

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