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After years of busted budgets and schedules, NASA says its $8.8 billion James Webb Space Telescope is ready for testing and on track for launch in 2018. [...] NASA has completed an initial round of laser-based optical measurements, known as a Center of Curvature Test, to determine that the telescope's 18 hexagonal mirror elements are precisely aligned to produce sharp images. In the months ahead, the mirror will be subjected to the stresses and strains it's expected to experience during launch. Then the mirror's alignment will be checked again to make sure it'll work correctly in space.
NASA also says the fifth and last layer of the telescope's sunshield has been completed and delivered to a facility in California. The reflective, foldable sunshield is designed to keep the telescope's sensitive electronics and optics from overheating. Eventually, all the components will be combined to create the finished telescope, and then loaded onto a European Ariane 5 rocket for launch in October 2018. The telescope will be sent to a gravitational balance point beyond Earth known as Sun-Earth L-2.
Source: http://www.geekwire.com/2016/nasa-ames-webb-space-telescope-testing/
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 03 2016, @08:50AM
How many decades of exactly what oppression? Native Hawaiians have the right to vote, own property, freedom of speech and religion. So what ignorance do you complain of? F**ing malahinis. Go home, hipster!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 03 2016, @01:18PM
> Native Hawaiians have the right to vote, own property, freedom of speech and religion
The right to own property isn't worth shit if all your property was stolen from you.
> So what ignorance do you complain of?
Apparently you are unaware of the fact that US congress issued an official public apology [congress.gov] admitting guilt for taking their property.
> F**ing malahinis
Ooh, you learned a word of hawaiian. Though, in your rush to play concern troll you don't actually understand the word. So of course you would use it for disrespect. Way to live down to the stereotype.