29 Days on the Edge
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- Опубликовано: 17 окт 2021
- The greatest origin story of all unfolds with the James Webb Space Telescope. Webb's launch is a pivotal moment that exemplifies the dedication, innovation, and ambition behind NASA and its partners, the European Space Agency (ESA) and Canadian Space Agency (CSA), but it is only the beginning. The 29 days following liftoff will be an exciting but harrowing time. Thousands of parts must work correctly, in sequence, to unfold Webb and put it in its final configuration, all while it flies through the expanse of space alone, to a destination nearly one million miles away. As the largest and most complex telescope ever sent into space, the James Webb Space Telescope is a technological marvel. By necessity, Webb takes on-orbit deployments to the extreme. Each step can be controlled expertly from the ground, giving Webb’s Mission Operations Center full control to circumnavigate any unforeseen issues with deployment.
Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Michael McClare (KBRwyle): Producer
Michael McClare (KBRwyle): Director
Michael McClare (KBRwyle): Writer
Michael McClare (KBRwyle): Video Editor
Aaron E. Lepsch (ADNET): Technical Support
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My husband worked on the JWST at Astro Aerospace in the Santa Barbara area for years. He shared many stories on the difficulty of getting the sunshield to work properly. They designed the telescopic arms that raise the sun shield. I wish he were still alive to see his hard work come to life.
May your late husband rest in peace!
Sounds like he devoted his life to a very noble endeavor!
At least you can marvel from the fruits of his work soon. 🙏
😯
I'm sure we'll all be watching one way or another on 18-12-21 (weather permitting).
my condolences, your husband is an hero for many of us! working on the future of humanity
Hats off to everyone who was involved in making this marvel of engineering
Big fan of ur channel.
Completely agree
It has to work before your hat should be removed....
It is a project challenging human limits, and demand for absolute perfection of everything.
That's incredible, isnt it?
That's a lot of moving parts. I can't imagine how emotionally invested the people are who actually worked on this. I'm emotionally invested, and I'm just a bystander.
My husband worked on this for the last 8 years, we are so excited yet full of anxiety 😅
My team worked very hard on this project.😊
All of us American tax payers are invested. And I am happy to have helped!
I agree. All this buildup is fun to watch but gives me a lot of anxiety.
@@janicep11 Hi Janice, what specifc area?
Its finally happening. Truly exciting times.
Indeed
Hahahahahahahahahahahha
For those who People think these are real
2 min silence for them
Keep obeying sheeple
Space 😂😂😂😂
Best christmas present ever.
Or the worst. Either way, this is going to be legendary.
Or in my case birthday.
I had these same feelings when New Horizons reached Pluto. So excited.
Let's just hope it works and doesn't get stuck on step 2 or any other step of the unfolding process.
@@Baronstone just pray
This is way bigger than the New Horizons spacecraft.
@@Baronstone Lo and behold, it didn't get stuck! I cannot wait for June 2022 to see the first images after extensive calibrations are completed! :D
Thank you, again, to all the men and women who've dedicated themselves to this ambitious project. Words cannot express how relieved I'll be when the JWST is finally deployed in the L2 Earth-sun Lagrange Point.
It's almost there!
This is amazing and also gives me tons of anxiety.
Yes, this video for me does the exact opposite of inspiring confidence.
@@GlennTillema if it makes you feel any better, what's done is done and entirely outside of anyone's control the moment this telescope leaves planet earth. this video is intended to build drama and excitement. this telescope is the pinnacle of human engineering and space observation, but is only as strong as its weakest link. i think the telescope has no weak links. the greatest minds in the world and billions of dollars have come together to make the most complex, ambitious, visually stunning and scientifically indispensable telescope ever created, the fate of which is to be doomed to wander the vacuum of space for eternity once its main science mission is complete and it runs out of fuel to maintain its unstable orbit at L2. our greatest hopes, efforts and aspirations hinge entirely on each of the 300+ single points of failure in its initiation sequence. it must work - and it will.
(edit: spelling)
Better worry about something you have some control over. Worrying about something which you cannot change just gives you stress.
@@simonmultiverse6349 lol thanks, Buddha, but I'm not genuinely stressed. It was a jest.
@@syntactyx lmao watch it blow up on launch day
We look forward to your first photos, queen bee.
Agreed, hopefully they can peer into the universe and solve the mystery, are there multiple universes?
@@jacob5728 I hope my friend
Love the honeycomb reference!
@@jacob5728 or have we been looking back in time at multiple iterations of our own and neighboring galaxies? Or does light travel forward through time over great distances showing is future iterations of our own and neighboring galaxies? If there is more than one universe will we stop using the term universe and replace with multiverse? What if it proves conclusively the earth is spherical and there are no more flat earthers to make fun of? What if it proves there was no big bang? What if it is able to show us why the boötes void is so empty? What if it makes black holes light up in a low frequency bandwidth that has never been visible before? Pretty darn exciting!
THANK YOU to everyone who made this possible! 💖
Just Don't launch it on a Friday, the 13th, okay?😀
@@ridethecurve55 😂 Better not take chances 🙂
You're welcome 👍🏻🧔🏻
the 14 years delay is good for one thing, we will get much better coverage of the mission (hopefully)
YES
This feels like another boondoggle like Boeing Starship. There are a lot of companies getting rich from slow development.
@@clarkkent7973 when hubble went online it was all blurry for some reason. It needed glasses due to the size of the lens made on earth with gravity, in zero g it flexed differently causing it to be out of focus. Needed a shuttle mission to fix it. We no longer have the shuttle. Gotta get this right first time or its a bunch of expensive scrap.
Yeah the problem is that it is still only designed to last for 5 years and the design was done so poorly that they did not design it so that it could be resupplied by robotic spacecraft
@@Baronstone The telescope can last for a very long time. But its orbit requires fuel to be maintained, and the telescope can only being limited fuel along.
Resupply by robot probe is.... Well let me just say it's not like nobody thought of it.
What I love most about missions like James Webb is it's ability to draw the best and brightest minds humanity has to offer in advanced systems engineering and other cutting edge sciences. I sometimes imagine how much more advanced this whole James Webb mission would be if the US, Russia and China were able to jointly develop these systems cooperatively.
Well let me tell you. The commies would hate the freedom loving people and take advantage of our openness to share informations, while simultaneously refusing to share their informations all the while they make fun of us. Happy?
@@JoelMMcKinney What are you? Five years old ?
@@MarcGoudreau nah, I'm an OG but I gotta dum it down for the clueless.
... how many caribou buck do you have mounted?
they are trying to make it look so dramatic after wasting these many years of money of tax payers to justify their stupidity.
Now we all have to use the Alan Shepard's pray: "Please lord, don't let me screw this up."
oft misquoted it's actually "Please Lord, don't let me fuck up" Although the man himself says his words were "Don't fuck up Shepard"
I sure hope everything works as designed, otherwise this video will be a litany to why such complex, fragile, unserviceable, unrepairable, non-upgradeable, expensive devices are not a good investment. We'll find out before long if the current state of Science, Engineering, and Quality Assurance is up to the task. 🙏🤞
By "lord", you mean science, right?
@@picksalot1 you sound like someone who hopes it goes wrong just so you can come back here and sound sage..
@@OriginalPuro you would have to ask Alan Shepard
ME: Takes 20 minutes to iron and fold one long sleeve shirt.
JWST: Hold my space beer!
my frozen beer.
This is a fantastic time to be alive! Watching human ambition to drive science ahead. I love that urge of fullfiling humans curiosity
Who else is here after the successful launch?
I can't believe the telescope has finally launched. Best of luck on its unprecedented 29 days to the edge.
A new decade of space exploration has begun. Good luck James Webb Space Telescope!
I truly feel like this is and will be the greatest technological feat I've witnessed in my 42 years, and we don't even have a single picture yet. I'll be following it closely for the indefinite future.
Что чувствовало сердце то увидел Хаббл. Что чувствует душа то увидит Вебб. 🌙
That's beautiful
@@airlinena are you like a 12 year old in 2013?
Translation: What the heart felt was what Hubble saw. What the soul feels is what Webb will see
Nicely put
Come on NASA and everyone working on Webb. You got this!
So much complexity.. so many potential failure points. These designers have balls, for sure. "29 days on edge" seems to be an understatement.
This all seems like it would be much easier with the SpaceX Starship which has much larger diameter ("9 m / 30 ft" vs. "5.5 m / 17.7 ft").
@@clarkkent7973 Except the JWST has to launch on something that exists and has a reliable track record.
@@clarkkent7973 Starship was not available during development. Also, ESA is picking up the launch costs.
@@clarkkent7973 so 1) that still would require folding for a telescope this size, it doesn't necessarily make it any easier. 2) it was designed years ago under the constrains of the launch vehicle. They'd literally just make the next telescope bigger when* starship is ready. Haven't you seen the design proposals for jwst successors? The whole point is to make the most of the fairing space available and launch in a timely manner on the most proven reliable vehicle available at the time.
And $10B at risk. I hope that it works as designed. Can't wait to see the pics.
The levels of excitement and anxiety rolled into one with this are unparalleled.
Exactly. I wasn't nervous until I saw this video. The more details I know about what has to work, the more anxious I get.
Imagine being a JWST engineer or project manager!
@@aemrt5745 Nah. I am good on all that. I am way too stupid.
Finally, ready to launch after almost 26 years. I've been holding my breath the entire time.
You must be purple as hell 🙂
*This video brought tears to my eyes....... Happy Tears* 🥲🥲🥲
"Slap it on a rocket". Yeah, that sounds about right! lol
The public relations team had to "dum it down" for the less experienced Americans.
Ride TheCurve
that's just the preposterous script
Ariane Space integration team at Kourou: _slapping things together is not what we do_ (but in french)
LOL. I had an engineering professor that would joke, " Building a car is easy. Pull some metal out of the ground, bang it up with some sledge hammers and you made a car!".
Just can't wait to see what images JW will beam back. This is so exciting. I'm nervous and I'm not even a part of team sending it up lol
Same, after all this overplanning I hope they didn't forget something essential, like an antenna (joke).
@@evilkidm93b omg how much would that suck lol
Yeah I've not wanted something to work so bad
hope you like infrared
WEBB is not for visual light means we can can't see images like from the Hubble. It's for the infrared which we can't see.
Finally, the Web going to live soon unfolding the secret of our universe more deeply... life going to be even more exciting
Neil Armstrong stepping onto the moon, just an amazing achievement and now the James Webb telescope. I can’t wait.
I am on the edge of my seat. This HAS to work!
Holy crap this is going to be one of the most important scientific mission on par with the Apollo launch - fingers crossed will be praying for a successful deployment.
If Apollo were like JWST, we would be still waiting to land on the Moon now.
@@parkershaw8529 😂😂😂
If this sucker works, it will be the greatest engineering achievement in human history.
richard
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The sentence "i is complex." is syntactically correct.
The layered insulation aspect is so genius. The orbital zone, the type of mirror system, the SENSOR'S! seeing red shifted UV light!! The micro shutter system to scan a large zone of space where before we had to go one at a time. The technology on this is unbelievably awesome!! Finally new age tech, it's crazy to think most things in space currently is old technology..? So to get cutting edge tech is something very special! ❤️
I'm actually more concerned about a rndm micro meteor strike than human error. Engineering at its best 👍
Apparently, such strikes have been taken into account in the observatory's design. Still, one has to wonder.
@@Petergoforth at the speed it will be moving its difficult to design around destructive penetration and save weight.
It all comes down to probability. I am sure that the chance of a >50% damage meteor strike is no less than 5-15 years. Of course there is 1 in a million chance it can happen the first year but we can live with it.
You couldn’t type random?
@@xploration1437 Yeah, I spent 2 minutes trying to google the abbreviation
I've been waiting for this since I was in High School, when I found out about JWST, back in 2008. Thank you to all the teams and all individuals who helped building this marvelous telescope!
That trim mirror is brilliant! The engineer who came up with it was likely an experienced sailor.
solar torque is something every spacecraft has to deal with; I forget which one, but there was a spacecraft with an asymmetric solar array configuration that was able to nearly double its lifespan by periodically yawing its attitude around the sunline instead of using propellant to dump the accumulated momentum.
@@alexandresen247 There was a satelite in the 90s that had a large solar parachute with four inflated tubes to hold it from each corner. They filmed it from a shuttle and I've been looking for footage of it for years with no luck :'(
@@TheAstronomyDude its ok lil buddy
Yar! I read ye post in the voice of the Sea Captain from the Simpsons.
@@alexandresen247 It was Kepler spacecraft. After few years, two of momentum wheels failed, and the mission was believed to be scraped. But they found a genius solution to actually utilize the sun wind to their advantage to balance the aircraft. It prolonged the life and mission ended after 9 years and 8 months.
Amazing. Humanity at its best. I be glued to the screen 18-12-2021.
Look at how much work was put on Webb. My goodness, I just wanna thank all people who are responsible for that amazing project. I'm speechless. And finally we will be able to see all that work being put it into practice.
This will be one of science and NASA's greatest achievements if this works. I cannot wait to see this figuratively unfold and I hope mankind will benefit and reap rewards for generations to come.
and if it fails it will be their doom
Very excited and nervous at the same time now that this is finally happening! Thank you to anyone who's had anything to do with this project (including you, random citizen, for you tax dollars)! I want to say good luck but it doesn't look like anything's been left to luck. SO GODSPEED!
I honestly feel sorry for those "43" who disliked this, I mean cmon!
People spending their whole entire life building this, just bloody amazing & how many people working on this project is mind boggling, let's hope all goes well, and see what's beyond
Truly the work of science fiction. So glad engineers had cartoons like the Transformers to watch as kids 😜.
I don't think I've ever been this excited for any other scientific device to start being used and show us discoveries like never before in human history!! 🤘🤘⚡⚡🤘🤘
And now JWST is FULLY DEPLOYED! Absolutely amazing work by NASA/ESA/CSA. I am patiently waiting out the next 5 months to see the first images!
Webb is fully deployed ! The best news in the last 10 years of my life, at least. I hope the mirror alignment will work without any issue. Hats off to the team who accomplished this; it's truly a human achievement. Driven by something that defines us, as a species: curiosity. Let's see the universe secrets unfold a bit more.
WOAH AM SOO EXCITED TO SEE IT IN SPACEEEE
Im excited to see what it SEES in space 🤩
The whole thing is just amazing. The complexity, the magnificent engineering, the team-work.... fingers crossed for the mission & for all of those involved in this astonishing effort that really showcases the best of mankind.
I simply cant wait to see first images coming from this marvel of science and technology. Can you imagine ? We will have the opportunity to see something that 100 billion people who came and went before us, never had the chance to see.
After so many delays and quadruple checking of systems, we’re finally getting it up there! Huge congrats to everyone involved in this! 👏🏻
Can’t believe it’ll take 30 days almost for a total setup. I’ll be keeping everything crossed! 🤞🏻👍🏻
O my god o my god o my god I cannot freaking wait till we have our first reading from this. It could b game changing !!!
If this works as intended it’s going to be epic
Many years ago I was offered a job to work on a new telescope .
At the time I thought that that it was just going to be another Space Mission that will never get off the drawing board , so I declined .
Oh how wrong I was , that telescope was/is the JWT .
I still am excited as f*ck that this is finally happening and even though I wasn’t involved I think we should all take a moment to think of all those that did take a gamble and make this telescope a reality .
Congrats to you all , you all deserve credit for your incredible hard work .
I bet everyone that has made the JWT part of thier life’s work over the years will be holding thier breath come launch day .
A BIG Thankyou to all who made this happen .
Take Care . R .
Fantastic, we, human beings, are doing incredible things. Congrats to all of you
You've got yourselves a new sub because i love this part of humanity , of wanting to explore space , and i look forward to see the first pictures this masterpiece will take after deployment and later in life :) Kudos for all the teams involved in this , God speed and see you in space ( me in elite dangerous , no man's sky , sci-fi movies/series -- and you guys , IRL )
I am nervous, and I'm not involved in the project at all. Can't imagine how you guys feel. My heartfelt wishes to you all. Good luck!
Looking deep into space is looking back into time. That’s the most exciting aspect of the JW telescope - to peer back to the origins of the universe.
Been waiting so long! I honestly cannot believe we are this close. I cannot wait to witness all the amazing things it will find. I've been in astronomy since I was a teen, seeing Haley's Comet for the first time and have been captivated with everything out there since. Hubble was amazing, all the new sights and images it has sent back, but this is on a whole different level. What we will be able to learn, should be mind boggling. Engage!
Part of me wishes that I could hear nothing more about the JWST until after it's launched in December.
But I know the coverage will only pick up between now and launch, and I'll be hanging on every word.
Thanks to all the amazing people who've been involved in this magnificent project.
You're all heroes, no matter how this turns out.
No pressure, LOL.
The launch went well today. Now for the unfolding...
This is absolutely amazing!! All the hard work and precision. I cannot wait to see what this will show us!! Best of luck and I hope everything goes flawlessly!!
I can not stress enough the anxiety i experience when i start building the top floor of my card deck towers. Hats off to those scientists for their efforts..
Imagine ,all this to answer at one question ,probably the oldest and the greatest one :Is there life somewhere else ? are we so precious ? What historic moment we are living in now, there will only be one last step to take, to establish contact if there is someone else listening. world, let's keep our fingers crossed
The James Webb Space Telescope should help us ascertain what theories about the universe that we have wrong and what we have possibly correct.
says the id*ot who doesn't even know any of those theories.
@@amazingdude9042 Try curtailing the hate, you might find yourself a happier individual.
Very likely. Hubble rewrote much of our astronomy knowledge, and JWST is much more powerful than Hubble! Should be an awesome mission! And it will take many years to digest all the information it gives us.
Thanks very much for the detailled explanation of the deployment process. Nail biter? No kidding!! Your whole team has an unimaginable responsibility to deliver. Small as it is, I am sending my best thoughts and energy for your total success.
I need anxiety pills after that presentation. So dramatic!
But, glad Webb is ready, and ready to change the world! Well done to everybody getting it this far. You're all heroes of humanity.
Can't wait for this 😭🚀🚀🚀
A successful mission for JWST is one of my best wishes for 2021 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
This is so cool.
I've got used to the idea that the JWST is always several years away that it feels unreal!
"Make it so." --- Capt. Picard
This will be the evolution of space science talked about for centuries. Incredible and awe inspiring times we’re entering.
This is one of the greatest moments that i have ever will live, just behind halley's comet visit...
Can't wait to see the results of this amazing work!
Woohoo i am dancing with tears of JOY
Godspeed, I know this will be a good flight!
Our perseption of life may change from next year. We will live by the truth, not myth. Thank you all who are making this possible.
I'm so nervous 😳😬
felicitaciones a los que conforman este proyecto me entero en este momento.yo vivo en venezuela cerca del lugar del lanzamiento .estare pendiente de todos los descubrimientos de este gran proyecto saludos.
Hang hee chann
Would better learning Fabio Silva how to score a goal.
"Vivo en Venezuela cerca del lugar del lanzamiento" Jajaja nunca falta un cobero venezolano en cualquier situacion.Puerto Rico queda mas cerca que Kourou que es donde se lanza esto. A aprender geografia y dejar de demostrar la ignorancia. Penita ajena.
I had the privilege of seeing the Webb Telescope in the developing stage. My nephew works for Northrop Grumman and took me to see the telescope as it was being built. This is very exciting news. Thanks Andrew! I will be excited to follow the launch and deployment.
What an amazing gift you have given to future scientists and all of us. Thank you for your bravery and the audacity to try.
If it can detect extra terrestrial life, I'll die a happy man! I never thought it could happen in my life time, now there is a chance.
Even if it does detect extraterrestrial life, they won't be making it public.
More likely that it'll find a technosignature :)
That's not its mission. Obviously it would be the discovery of the millenia but it's highly unlikely.
The actual work it's designed for is way cooler imo. The images and data it sends back will be from near the literal dawn of time. I'm beyond excited!
JWST does hope to find life out there. BUT it will not be able to confirm life beyond microbial life if found. Basically "we" (humans) are looking to analyze gases thought light spectral analysis from exoplanets. Hint lots of fun "keyword" research topics. Please note exoplanetary life is not the primary mission. Looking as far back in time/space as possible with increased technological capabilities is.
Absolutely well done and definitely keep it up ❗👍👍👍👍👍
Mike Menzel is my uncle! Proud of you uncle Mike!
A super amazing feat of all the engineers! THANK YOU!!
Good luck, I am so nervous for you and I am not even on the project. 👍🏴😁
Just watching this is stressful. I can't imagine what it feels like working on this and knowing what's at stake. I wish nothing but the best for these people and this project.
Murphy loves this stuff - one chance to work right!
Good luck to the team!
You must all be very proud!!
I love Science.
Will there be a live stream of the command center and the launch/unfolding of the JWST?
I want to see all of it, from start to finish.
Maybe
I hope the project is a success. God speed.
2:39 "... _without_ having someone come to fix it."
Hubble: 😢😢
Excellent presentation! The telescope has finally sent today into the space!
The history is being writthen right now.
300 single points of failure.
The people at JPL and NASA....they GO BOLDLY!!!
Huge credit to the producer and tech support for creating such a hype!! video
I am so excited and truly filled with wonder! Thanks to all of the brilliant minds making JWST possible.
Поехали!
I've been waiting years for this but seeing how complicated the unfolding is going to be casts some serious doubt on whether or not I should get my hopes up. It's quite the impressive piece of engineering though and if it works we'll really get to see some cool things going forward.
Congratulations to the team! Looking forward to it...
I remember my Dad waking us up early in the morning to watch the first live televised launches of manned missions. Always been excited about space ever since. Ended up working for a major company involved with space stuff. Sad to say, though, my kids and grandkids don't share the same enthusiasm as my Dad or myself. Daughter's favorite reply is "I can't go to space, Dad. I need to stay here and take care of you!." The teenage grand-daughter summed it up, though, "Why would I want to go to Mars?? There's nothing to do up there!" I would be out the door in less than a minute if they would let me go.
Since it needs the sunshield, does this mean that it can only look at the outer planets when they are on the same side as Earth? It would be really cool to see the photos it takes of the outer planets.
It won;t be used to image planets in our solar system.
@@richardgregory3684 Not even once?
@@rring44 No idea, I guess they cou;ld, but it has a strictlylimitted service life so telescope time will be very precious. It is designed for deep space objects.
This video isn't dramatic enough. More close-ups on faces and louder music please.
Outstanding is a smaller word to appreciate such a scientific idea even. Hats off to the complete team and its members for such a great cause and service to humanity. The ultimate knowledge that would come is the real asset which would definitely enhance human perspective of thinking about vastness of Universe and knowing his/her past.... God Bless and wish you success.
I wish everything goes right! Humanity to the best moments!!