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posted by takyon on Thursday November 03 2016, @02:22AM   Printer-friendly
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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/


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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 03 2016, @03:42AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 03 2016, @03:42AM (#421921)

    > Boggles my mind superstitious idiots can hold up the telescope in Hawaii,

    Boggles my mind that you have your panties in such a twist that you have to proudly display your ignorance in some sort of scientism virtue-signaling wankfest.

    What's going on in Hawaii is a reckoning. Decades of oppression of the indigenous people have finally come back to bite the oppressors in the ass. They made the mistake of doing more than give lip-service to respecting the rights of those with native blood, they actually passed laws giving those rights legal force. It still took a very long time for them to organize enough to effectively exercise those rights. But now they are. If anyone wants to build another telescope, in Hawaii they are going to have to deal with the people who have the rights to the land. If all parties can't come to a respectful accommodation, then that's too bad, its their legal right to say no. They can say yes, but they have to be given a good enough reason to say yes because its their right to decide.

    The lesson in Hawaii is that if you are not a hypocrite you can't both say you believe in respecting the rights of the people and then ignore those rights when they become inconvenient.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 03 2016, @08:50AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 03 2016, @08:50AM (#421974)

    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

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 03 2016, @01:18PM (#422017)

      > 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.

  • (Score: 2) by Snotnose on Friday November 04 2016, @12:28AM

    by Snotnose (1623) on Friday November 04 2016, @12:28AM (#422313)

    At least I post my opinions as myself, not as an AC. You want to criticize me? Make a farking account.

    Never mind I realized too late I was posting to soylent and not fark. Completely different mindset between the 2 sites.

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