NASAs James Webb telescope successfully launched and deployed into space

[FairAndUnbiased]

Of course i appreciate China, I hope they will be the next pioneers - China's new battery tech will hopefully benefit the whole world. But it's true that, except the last few decades, China was inward focused throughout its history.

Very few achievements that the world could benefit from - whereas American achievements like light bulbs, dry cell batteries, telephones, have benefited the world for a century already.

Uh... Paper, compass, gunpowder and printing...?

 

[EasyNow]

Uh... Paper, compass, gunpowder and printing...?

I knew you would say that - then we have to start comparing every invention / discovery USA Vs China - which is a not the point. Even India can say it invented things.

The point was, USA is aiming for fantastical achievements and is sharing with everyone else. China is not the same yet.

 

[Erroroverload]

dont derail the thread folks

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Because James Webb is a US project.

They do not share with China.

Typical false excuses.

Try reading the JWT timeline: 2003

Timeline of the James Webb Space Telescope - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

The JWT project was started well before that 2011 ban.

Wolf Amendment - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[F-22Raptor]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1476194840018890756

 

[Apollon]

TBH it's moments like these I thank God for USA - because no one else would spend so much money on projects like these.

However they make their money, they collect it and they spend it on fantastic ideas.

Its european

https://twitter.com/x/status/1476194840018890756

Precission of "our" launch? Amazing, so now european Ariane V is NASA too? It gets more laughable each day.

 

[F-22Raptor]

Its european


Precission of "our" launch? Amazing, so now european Ariane V is NASA too? It gets more laughable each day.

90% of the project is paid by American taxpayer’s and the vast majority of development, integration, and testing was done at NASA facilities.

Your completely delusional

 

[Apollon]

90% of the project is paid by American taxpayer’s and the vast majority of development, integration, and testing was done at NASA facilities.

Your completely delusional

You claim Ariane V too and two of the 4 instruments are european. Btw if you paid 90% how comes Europe has 40% seats in the committee?

 

[F-22Raptor]

You claim Ariane V too and two of the 4 instruments are european. Btw if you paid 90% how comes Europe has 40% seats in the committee?

NASA acknowledges Europes contribution, but it still doesn’t change the fact that Europe funded only 8.5% of the project.

 

[F-22Raptor]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1476220149787238410

The Deployable Tower Assembly is now being extended

 

[F-22Raptor]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1476310220079083520

DTA successfully deployed

 

[JawadKKhan]

I heard a journalist told that besides images this telescope is capable to see in the past (he referred to the speed of light); what is your opinion on it? If you could understand the Urdu language, I will share a link to that video with you of what he is talking about.

If you are talking about Dr Shahid Masood he is absolutely wrong on this one. We aren't going to be able to see Hazrat Musa 'Alaihis Salam parting the Red Sea, or the pyramids being built. The light from those events, IF it reached space, is now thousands of light years away. Only through some strange gravitational effect would that light reach us. There is a very, very remote possibility (again due to light bending in some strange way due to space-time curvature) that the light from Shaq-al-Qamar (the breaking of Moon into two) could be captured in some fashion, but scientists would have to be looking for it actively. As far as I know, it isn't included in the public agenda of James Webb.

Dr.Shahid Masood is wrong on just every other thing. He dramatize, sensationalize everything. Why even people watch or listen to him.

You can never see the past happenings done here on earth, as the light emitted from those events has already gone into space much earlier, You cannot catch the speed of light which is going away from you. You can only catch the light which is incoming. For instance, if we see a star at a distance of a million light years that means we are seeing the star as it looked like a million years ago. We are not seeing the runtime / live objects.. We are seeing very distant objects, light from which have taken a long period to reach till earth.

 

[F-22Raptor]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1476572526327304195

Aft momentum flap successfully deployed

 

[F-22Raptor]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1476608706053869572

Sun shield covers successfully removed

 

[F-22Raptor]

Next 3 days are huge with sun shield deployment and tensioning