James Webb: Our best-ever space telescope is set for launch

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  1. There were good reasons for the earlier delays. Let’s hope everything will be ready by December 18th for a safe launch. This telescope will give unprecedented insight to the early universe, planetary formation and exoplanet atmospheres.

  2. I will be happy once that thing is in place.I’m not superstitious, but something can only be delayed for so long, before making any celebration seem premature.

  3. It’s probably the most delicate telescope ever created and not for lack of expertise or effort. It’s legitimately a huge challenge to launch a telescope of this size in orbit without it being damaged and it’s beyond any possibility of repair mission if something goes wrong, as opposed to Hubble which orbited relatively close.

  4. Well I hope you’ve checked it very carefully and don’t have any screws left over, or any missing and you found out where those funny shaped brackets went.

  5. Great news and looking forward to the wonders this will unlock, but isn’t this a NASA project? Apart from its general relevance to this world, what’s particularly r/europe about it?

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