Space and stuff

[Mutzo Nutzo]

Chinese Rover Discovers 'Mystery Hut' Cube on Far Side of Moon

The unknown object was colloquially described as a "mystery hut" by one government-run space outreach blog.

www.google.co.uk

Moon cube theories anyone? ?

Neil Armstrongs butty box.

 

[ste d' indica]

James Webb rescheduled again to Christmas Day, lunchtime in the UK, I'll be watching.

Countdown to Webb's 1st Images Webb/NASA

Countdown to the release NASA's Webb Space Telescope 1st first full-color images and spectroscopic data. The James Webb Space Telescope (sometimes called Webb or JWST) is a large infrared telescope with a 6.5-meter primary mirror. Webb will be the premier observatory of the next decade...

www.jwst.nasa.gov

 

[Melchizedek]

Scientists spot water ice under the 'Grand Canyon' of Mars

"We found a central part of Valles Marineris to be packed full of water — far more water than we expected."

www.space.com

Send the colonists up Mr. Musk.

 

[PITA]

Any news on that square Structure/Rock on the Moon that the Chinese Rover spotted, they said it would be a 2-3 week process for it to get to it.

It's where they've been hiding the tennis player.

 

[ste d' indica]

Less than 40 minutes....

 

[ste d' indica]

T-Minus 2 minutes...

 

[Wizard]

James Webb is away! Merry Spacemas everyone!

 

[ste d' indica]

Separated from its final stage and deploying solar array (I'm watching this happen live from an on board camera), its got power and is now on its way past the moon and into deep space.

Absolutely awesome event, a Christmas gift to humanity and a testament to what can be achieved when we set incredible goals, cooperate internationally and stop being short-term, profit driven twerps.

 

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You can follow JWST's progress here:

Where Is Webb? NASA/Webb

During Webb's launch, deployment and commissioning, 'WhereIsWebb' tracked Webb's 'flight' to L2 orbit, its state and progress during its deployment and commissioning process, and finally the release of its first images. This process is now complete. During this process, the page constantly...

www.jwst.nasa.gov

Its coming up on 20% of the distance into its journey traveling at about a mile per second, should hurtle past the moon at some point tomorrow.

 

[Sarnia Kevin]

 

[Gwladys St. Glory]

Truth; FUD...yours to wrestle with. 5:43-5:55 sums it up well

 

[bluerobert]

Great series, strap yourselves in.

 

[ste d' indica]

Sunshield components all done, secondary mirror deployed:





Over half a million miles from earth. Astonishing achievement this.

 

[ste d' indica]

Primary mirror now unfolded, JWST is now deployed in its final configuration and continuing on its way to L2 orbit nearly a million miles from home. It'll spend several weeks cooling, focusing the mirrors and such then its ready to go.

Its hard to understate the complexity of this machine and the design, research and testing dome over decades to achieve this. Just to give some idea of the scale, here's the sunshield:






And the mirror:







Well done shaved monkeys, we've done something wonderful for a change. Kick ass spaceship.

 

[Paris]