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I hope it works up there. They dropped it https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2021/11/22/nasa-provides-update-on-webb-telescope-launch/ https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/202
by qwertyuiop_ 5y ago
I hope it works up there. They dropped it
https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2021/11/22/nasa-provides-update-on-webb-telescope-launch/ https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2021/11/22/nasa-provides-update-...
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- findalex 5y ago> caused a vibration throughout the observatory. I hope there won't be vibrations during the launch of the rocket.
- mort1merp0 5y agoThe launch vibrations and their resonance frequency are accounted for in the design. The unplanned vibrations due to this mishap was not planned for. I understand they ran some tests and calculations after the accident and believe that the instruments are good to go.
- zamadatix 5y agoOne means you felt something else have an bad day, the other means you had a bad day.
- redis_mlc 5y agoFrom your link, it doesn't sound like they dropped it. A clamp band "released" causing vibration, but that is not the as a 1g fall to the hard floor. This is one of the few NASA projects to actually care about, since the Shuttle and the ISS were flaming moneypits. Virtually no science has ever been done on the ISS, even compressing it's entire history into a single year - it's that worthless. (Another HN reader confirmed that by reading NASA's junk PR releases about ISS.)
- ceejayoz 5y agoCould've been worse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOAA-19#Damage_during_manufacture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOAA-19#Damage_during_manufact...
- kingcharles 5y agoAfter checking, it was fine.