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Perhaps it's good to remind ourselves that every time man surpasses himself, like this James Webb Space Telescope, with one of the most beautiful metaphors in cinema history of man's evolution from ape to homo sapiens, in Stanley Kubrick's film: "2001-Space Odyssey".
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First Images From the James Webb Space Telescope

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It's done. The biggest astronomical mirror ever sent into space is assembled and ready for focusing.
 
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william-1 said:
It's done. The biggest astronomical mirror ever sent into space is assembled and ready for focusing.
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The really difficult bit starts, four (perhaps five) months of calibration next.

So far everything has been flawless, congratulations ! :-clap
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I think I'm not wrong if I say the Webb Space Telescope is a tremendous extension of our antennas; the difference being that the former is a search of stars and we are looking for satellites.
Just as NASA aligns the Webb for cosmic bodies, we have to do the same for satellites.:)
 
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JWST is on 25900MHz now at 7MBd so may be sending back the first fuzzy pictures.
 
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Mirror checks complete.
 
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Channel Hopper said:
Mirror checks complete.
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Struggling to see pictures on a 1.2m dish though. 4dB NF LNA, linear feed (should be circular).
Quite strong on DSS54, Madrid, at -88dBm (32m dish), at the time of this plot

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I've seen some dodgy marine life in the past but WTF is that ?

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