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Originally Posted By Wangstang: For several reasons it's worth noting that Hubble was built using spare surveillance/spy satellites that were at the end of their project life. NSA/CIA/DARPA and many other .gov funding sources were funneled into the programs that developed what would eventually become Hubble. It's a shame they didn't have the lens system right before the original launch. That said it's arguably been helpful that they got it wrong because it emphasized the need to have repair/updating options available and I have no doubt that those little mini shuttles we've seen photos of but are not told what exactly they are doing are now here in response to the Bubble lens problems. Repairing Hubble also helped us develop tools and effective work methods eventually used to get the ISS assembled and keep it maintained. View Quote Always figured Hubble was a spy sat pointing out instead of in. Maybe that's why the primary mirror got ground wrong. lol |
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Originally Posted By StewartTR: Always figured Hubble was a spy sat pointing out instead of in. Maybe that's why the primary mirror got ground wrong. lol View Quote Yes I believe that Hubble was indeed based on the same design as operating spy sats, which is why it had had certain design features like its mirror size already set. But the mirror mis-grinding was just a f-up by the vendor that set the parameters wrong in the grinding machine, and the error was not caught because the same error was used in the verification machine or something like that. |
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Originally Posted By QuantumPion: Yes I believe that Hubble was indeed based on the same design as operating spy sats, which is why it had had certain design features like its mirror size already set. But the mirror mis-grinding was just a f-up by the vendor that set the parameters wrong in the grinding machine, and the error was not caught because the same error was used in the verification machine or something like that. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By QuantumPion: Originally Posted By StewartTR: Always figured Hubble was a spy sat pointing out instead of in. Maybe that's why the primary mirror got ground wrong. lol Yes I believe that Hubble was indeed based on the same design as operating spy sats, which is why it had had certain design features like its mirror size already set. But the mirror mis-grinding was just a f-up by the vendor that set the parameters wrong in the grinding machine, and the error was not caught because the same error was used in the verification machine or something like that. wasn't that like 1960s tech they were using to grind the mirror? Seems like lots of room for error with the old stuff |
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Originally Posted By brass: @Enzo300 That's already in progress. The Starlink constellation have cameras on them both looking out and looking down. Once the pattern is dense enough, that many cameras can be tiled together to give higher magnification for about a 50,000 foot view of anywhere on Earth - Basically Google Earth "Live" like in Snow Crash. That's not quite available yet as the pattern isn't dense enough but it will be if the launch rate of the satellite strings continues. View Quote @brass Citation needed, please. I was not aware that Starlink had Earth observation cameras. I would like to know more. |
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Originally Posted By redoubt: @brass Citation needed, please. I was not aware that Starlink had Earth observation cameras. I would like to know more. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By redoubt: Originally Posted By brass: @Enzo300 That's already in progress. The Starlink constellation have cameras on them both looking out and looking down. Once the pattern is dense enough, that many cameras can be tiled together to give higher magnification for about a 50,000 foot view of anywhere on Earth - Basically Google Earth "Live" like in Snow Crash. That's not quite available yet as the pattern isn't dense enough but it will be if the launch rate of the satellite strings continues. @brass Citation needed, please. I was not aware that Starlink had Earth observation cameras. I would like to know more. Star tracking cameras mentioned there but i don't see one on earth facing. It was something he talked about prior to any of the launches and may have been nixed. Third, the star tracker cameras are located on the sides of the chassis (the only place they can go and have adequate field of view). Rolling knife edge to the Sun can point one star tracker directly at the Earth and the other one directly at the Sun, which would cause the satellite to have degraded attitude knowledge. |
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Originally Posted By brass: Star tracking cameras mentioned there but i don't see one on earth facing. It was something he talked about prior to any of the launches and may have been nixed. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By brass: Originally Posted By redoubt: Originally Posted By brass: @Enzo300 That's already in progress. The Starlink constellation have cameras on them both looking out and looking down. Once the pattern is dense enough, that many cameras can be tiled together to give higher magnification for about a 50,000 foot view of anywhere on Earth - Basically Google Earth "Live" like in Snow Crash. That's not quite available yet as the pattern isn't dense enough but it will be if the launch rate of the satellite strings continues. @brass Citation needed, please. I was not aware that Starlink had Earth observation cameras. I would like to know more. Star tracking cameras mentioned there but i don't see one on earth facing. It was something he talked about prior to any of the launches and may have been nixed. Third, the star tracker cameras are located on the sides of the chassis (the only place they can go and have adequate field of view). Rolling knife edge to the Sun can point one star tracker directly at the Earth and the other one directly at the Sun, which would cause the satellite to have degraded attitude knowledge. Thanks. I was aware of the star-trackers. Earth observation cameras must have been nixed in the final design. |
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They stated that because of the launch accuracy and the minimal course corrections, they now have ~20 years of propellant on board. That's awesome news!
Propellant, outside of catastrophic failure, was the only limiting resource to extending the life of Webb. |
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Originally Posted By midcap: wasn't that like 1960s tech they were using to grind the mirror? Seems like lots of room for error with the old stuff View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By midcap: Originally Posted By QuantumPion: Originally Posted By StewartTR: Always figured Hubble was a spy sat pointing out instead of in. Maybe that's why the primary mirror got ground wrong. lol Yes I believe that Hubble was indeed based on the same design as operating spy sats, which is why it had had certain design features like its mirror size already set. But the mirror mis-grinding was just a f-up by the vendor that set the parameters wrong in the grinding machine, and the error was not caught because the same error was used in the verification machine or something like that. wasn't that like 1960s tech they were using to grind the mirror? Seems like lots of room for error with the old stuff |
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How well will the JWST be able to resolve pictures of the closest exoplanets?
Like looking at Jupiter through a cheap telescope? Like looking at the moon through a cardboard tube? Or just some dots of light? |
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Originally Posted By midcap: wasn't that like 1960s tech they were using to grind the mirror? Seems like lots of room for error with the old stuff View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By midcap: Originally Posted By QuantumPion: Originally Posted By StewartTR: Always figured Hubble was a spy sat pointing out instead of in. Maybe that's why the primary mirror got ground wrong. lol Yes I believe that Hubble was indeed based on the same design as operating spy sats, which is why it had had certain design features like its mirror size already set. But the mirror mis-grinding was just a f-up by the vendor that set the parameters wrong in the grinding machine, and the error was not caught because the same error was used in the verification machine or something like that. wasn't that like 1960s tech they were using to grind the mirror? Seems like lots of room for error with the old stuff (2012) NRO gives NASA 2 spy sats with larger mirrors |
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Originally Posted By QuantumPion: Yes I believe that Hubble was indeed based on the same design as operating spy sats, which is why it had had certain design features like its mirror size already set. But the mirror mis-grinding was just a f-up by the vendor that set the parameters wrong in the griniding machine, and the error was not caught because the same error was used in the verification machine or something like that. View Quote The really sad thing was there a photograph published showing them assembling or working on the hubble mirror in a clean room. You can actually see the spherical aberration of the mirror in the image in the photograph and no one caught it. I think it was later published in aviation leak. |
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Originally Posted By midcap: basically it's going to see things outside the visible spectrum, mostly Infared, which is heat, so that's why it has to be super cold on the sensors side its objective is to see further into the begining of the universe and find aliens L2 orbit is about 1,000,000 miles away its moving away right now but will be stationary in orbit and tidal locked with the earth using the earth as a shield from the sun. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cUe4oMk69E View Quote I believe you are incorrect It will be in an orbit around Lagrange pt 2 and will not be hidden from the sun by the earth. That would not let the solar panels work and also that's what the sun shield is for. |
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Originally Posted By Surfdiver: I believe you are incorrect It will be in an orbit around Lagrange pt 2 and will not be hidden from the sun by the earth. That would not let the solar panels work and also that's what the sun shield is for. View Quote Correct. It's orbit around l2 is similar in size to the moon's orbit around earth and takes about 6 months to complete one orbit. It isn't going to be in earth shadow. |
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Originally Posted By Surfdiver: I believe you are incorrect It will be in an orbit around Lagrange pt 2 and will not be hidden from the sun by the earth. That would not let the solar panels work and also that's what the sun shield is for. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Surfdiver: Originally Posted By midcap: basically it's going to see things outside the visible spectrum, mostly Infared, which is heat, so that's why it has to be super cold on the sensors side its objective is to see further into the begining of the universe and find aliens L2 orbit is about 1,000,000 miles away its moving away right now but will be stationary in orbit and tidal locked with the earth using the earth as a shield from the sun. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cUe4oMk69E I believe you are incorrect It will be in an orbit around Lagrange pt 2 and will not be hidden from the sun by the earth. That would not let the solar panels work and also that's what the sun shield is for. my bad...too bad they couldn't sync it up |
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Animation of the Webb orbit
Animation: The James Webb Space Telescope's Orbit |
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With all the tech and transmission ability on the Webb, did they include a camera to at least send some recordings/images back to Earth to show the "human eye" view of things as it traveled to L2 or what L2 looks like to the human eye, without any magnification? I know keeping weight down is critical, but there's a lot to be said for the PR gained for NASA from the images that capture things like a view of the Earth from the moon.
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What's the purpose of such a wide orbit about the L2 point?
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Originally Posted By johnh57: Animation of the Webb orbit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cUe4oMk69E View Quote |
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Probably why the orbit is as large as it is, and the orbit is not perpendicular to the line from l2 through earth to the sun, so eventually it covers a fair amount of the sky. They know years in advance what its orientation is so they can plan their activities accordingly.
I don't think they can wake up Monday morning and decide to go look at Jupiter today just for something to do. They do have the ability to adjust its orientation, without using thrusters (and fuel). Eta: it can rotate on its axis though. If you need to look along the plane of our solar system turn it 90 degrees. It actually has a pretty full capability. |
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Originally Posted By Hater: Okay, based on that animation, here's a dumb question that's been vexing me. If you have to orient the sunshield towards the sun (duh) for the instruments to work, and the sun and the earth and the rest of the planets are on the same ecliptic plane, and every picture I've seen of JWST shows the mirror pointing at a right angle to the sunshield, how do you orient the mirror to look at any angle other than 90 degrees up or 90 degrees down from the ecliptic? Does the mirror have a pitch mechanism that will orient it other than a right angle vs the sunshield ? Or does the sunshield not have to be perpendicular to the sun? View Quote I think this video covers this. But if not, it's worth the 30 minutes to watch. It covers a lot of stuff about JWST. How Does The James Webb Space Telescope Work? - Smarter Every Day 262 |
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Originally Posted By Hater: Okay, based on that animation, here's a dumb question that's been vexing me. If you have to orient the sunshield towards the sun (duh) for the instruments to work, and the sun and the earth and the rest of the planets are on the same ecliptic plane, and every picture I've seen of JWST shows the mirror pointing at a right angle to the sunshield, how do you orient the mirror to look at any angle other than 90 degrees up or 90 degrees down from the ecliptic? Does the mirror have a pitch mechanism that will orient it other than a right angle vs the sunshield ? Or does the sunshield not have to be perpendicular to the sun? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Hater: Originally Posted By johnh57: Animation of the Webb orbit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cUe4oMk69E Starting at 6:23, the maximum deflection/adjustment range of the JWST is explained How NASA's $10 Billion Origami Telescope Will Unfold The Early Universe |
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Originally Posted By Wangstang: With all the tech and transmission ability on the Webb, did they include a camera to at least send some recordings/images back to Earth to show the "human eye" view of things as it traveled to L2 or what L2 looks like to the human eye, without any magnification? I know keeping weight down is critical, but there's a lot to be said for the PR gained for NASA from the images that capture things like a view of the Earth from the moon. View Quote Nope. Their reasoning is explained in this thread:
But basically, increased complexity and it’d just be another potential failure point that could fuck up everything else |
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Originally Posted By Rudukai13: Nope. Their reasoning is explained in this thread:
But basically, increased complexity and it’d just be another potential failure point that could fuck up everything else View Quote There isn't a whole lot of light on the business side of the thing. Pics aren't going to show much. |
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I just saw a tweet from NASA saying that Arianne did such a great job with the push from the rocket, that JWST should have enough fuel for at least 20 years!!!!
https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-fuel-20-years |
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Originally Posted By midcap: I just saw a tweet from NASA saying that Arianne did such a great job with the push from the rocket, that JWST should have enough fuel for at least 20 years!!!! https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-fuel-20-years View Quote Depends on how well the final orbital insertion burn goes but that’s what they’re currently estimating |
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when it's that cold, but you want it colder.. can't imagine..
Hot Side: 130F (sunshield structure average temp) 51F (spacecraft bus equipment panel average temp) Cold Side: -315F (primary mirror average temperature) -328F (instrument radiator temperature) The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) sunshield is a passive thermal control system deployed post-launch to shield the telescope and instrumentation from the light and heat of the Sun, Earth, and Moon. Its purpose is to enable the infrared telescope to function at or below its design temperature of 40 kelvins (−233 °C; −388 °F) |
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Originally Posted By RED_5: when it's that cold, but you want it colder.. can't imagine.. Hot Side: 130F (sunshield structure average temp) 51F (spacecraft bus equipment panel average temp) Cold Side: -315F (primary mirror average temperature) -328F (instrument radiator temperature) The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) sunshield is a passive thermal control system deployed post-launch to shield the telescope and instrumentation from the light and heat of the Sun, Earth, and Moon. Its purpose is to enable the infrared telescope to function at or below its design temperature of 40 kelvins (−233 °C; −388 °F) View Quote How long ago would capabilities like that have seemed like mad science? The 80s? Perhaps the mid 70s with Skylab's overheating issues? |
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Originally Posted By RED_5: when it's that cold, but you want it colder.. can't imagine.. Hot Side: 130F (sunshield structure average temp) 51F (spacecraft bus equipment panel average temp) Cold Side: -315F (primary mirror average temperature) -328F (instrument radiator temperature) The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) sunshield is a passive thermal control system deployed post-launch to shield the telescope and instrumentation from the light and heat of the Sun, Earth, and Moon. Its purpose is to enable the infrared telescope to function at or below its design temperature of 40 kelvins (233 C; 388 F) View Quote A device that cools Helium down to 6 degrees Kelvin (-448.866F), just 6 degrees K above absolute zero - and it cools the sensor on the MIRI to 6.5 degrees Kelvin. |
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Just passed the 750,000 mile mark. Only 148 000 to go.
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Originally Posted By Chokey:
https://i.imgur.com/ckzcZyu.gif
video https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1481367290595663880/vid/1280x720/ijyLgcYKiTS1mAM-.mp4?tag=14 View Quote So not only do we have a working telescope, it’ll be the fully functional telescope it was designed to be |
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she sure slowed down a bit...
0.1895mi/s Cruising Speed (682 MPH) 132412.0mi. To L2 Orbit 193 hrs to go |
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Originally Posted By SecretSquirell: It's relative speed. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By SecretSquirell: Originally Posted By RED_5: she sure slowed down a bit... 0.1895mi/s Cruising Speed (682 MPH) 132412.0mi. To L2 Orbit 193 hrs to go It's relative speed. So it's like hauling ass relative to other soalr systems then? |
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Originally Posted By brass: Star tracking cameras mentioned there but i don't see one on earth facing. It was something he talked about prior to any of the launches and may have been nixed. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By brass: Originally Posted By redoubt: Originally Posted By brass: @Enzo300 That's already in progress. The Starlink constellation have cameras on them both looking out and looking down. Once the pattern is dense enough, that many cameras can be tiled together to give higher magnification for about a 50,000 foot view of anywhere on Earth - Basically Google Earth "Live" like in Snow Crash. That's not quite available yet as the pattern isn't dense enough but it will be if the launch rate of the satellite strings continues. @brass Citation needed, please. I was not aware that Starlink had Earth observation cameras. I would like to know more. Star tracking cameras mentioned there but i don't see one on earth facing. It was something he talked about prior to any of the launches and may have been nixed. Third, the star tracker cameras are located on the sides of the chassis (the only place they can go and have adequate field of view). Rolling knife edge to the Sun can point one star tracker directly at the Earth and the other one directly at the Sun, which would cause the satellite to have degraded attitude knowledge. star trackers are for positioning and telemetry data . The starlink bus does not have an integrated observatory. The cost of prepping them for a camera with a usable lens would be cost prohibitive. Just the TVAC cycles to remove particulates from the hardware would run the project another 10 years. |
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Ten more days, 122.5k miles to go.
Now that The Expanse is over I have to get my space porn from this giant beautiful bastard |
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Wonder how much fuel they burn to put it in the l2 orbit? From the orbit dimensions they gave they need to turn the thing about 90 deg from its current trajectory and accelerate it to roughly .1 mi/sec. Roughly 500,000 mile (diameter) orbit with a 6 month orbital cycle.
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Originally Posted By redoubt: I think this video covers this. But if not, it's worth the 30 minutes to watch. It covers a lot of stuff about JWST. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P8fKd0IVOs View Quote Thanks for that. It's always refreshing to listen to super smart people who are able (and willing) to explain complex things to laymen like me. |
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Now this thread may get boring for a couple months
I set the thread not to fall into the archives just in case |
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Noticed that two of the mirrors are still at 12.3mm
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Originally Posted By fike: Noticed that two of the mirrors are still at 12.3mm View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes NOTE: Segment A3 and A6 will be moved separately at the end of the process because their position sensors are read out in a different way. |
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Originally Posted By RED_5: Originally Posted By fike: Noticed that two of the mirrors are still at 12.3mm NOTE: Segment A3 and A6 will be moved separately at the end of the process because their position sensors are read out in a different way. Lol. RIF. Thanks. |
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