The launch is super scary, but the deployment seems even worse. When will we know whether or not all is working?
I don't know if I could handle that much pressure to launch that thing.
I don't know if I could handle that much pressure to launch that thing.
On other hand, NASA has done this amazing thing with landing rovers on Mars flawlessly and those were incredibly complex processes with sophisticated pieces of engineering.
biting my nails here
>By June 2022, if all goes well, Webb will finally be ready for science.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6a/JWSTDepl...
https://webbtelescope.org/contents/media/images/4180-Image
After that they still need to a do a ton of checks, wait for outgassing, etc. The first "science-quality images" are expected by the end of the third month.