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Re:James Webb telescope's coldest instrument reaches operati... by lisper on Monday April 18, 2022 @05:58PM (#31077143)
It’s not just you. I worked at JPL for twelve years and I expected it to fail too. I can’t tell you how happy it makes me to be wrong about this.
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Re:James Webb telescope's coldest instrument reaches operati... by mstipetic on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @02:41AM (#31080251)
Why did you expect it to fail? You have some inside info about the problems they were facing?
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Re:James Webb telescope's coldest instrument reaches operati... by lisper on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @11:59AM (#31084932)
No specific inside info. But seeing how the sausage is made makes it amazing that anything they do works at all, let alone that it so often works as well as it does. I was particularly primed to expect JWST to fail because I lived through the Galileo antenna failure and the Hubble mirror fiasco.
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