We Are Go for Launch

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55 points·marcodiego··10 comments

Official pre-game show and launch live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nT7JGZMbtM

Now it's a merry Christmas!

Well, I'm holding my breath until it is actually in space, but still, great news!

I’m so excited!

What a treat to have this kind of event on Christmas. Though, my heart goes out to the hard working engineers/technicians/astronauts at NASA who are slaving over the holidays.

I'm as excited as I am anxious about this, hope everything goes well, it sure would be poetic to get it up there on Christmas day.

Big thanks to Arianespace for lifting it up there safely in one piece.

Let's hope for a successful launch and deploy.

But as a comment: I really don't like this kind of "all or nothing" projects. Its extremely risky and if it fails, 20 years would be lost and billions of dollars would be lost. I hope once Starship is ready, some billionaire buys a thousand telescopes, throws them into a Starship and flies them all over the solar system. Seriously, its almost 2022. Why do we still only have 1 telescope up there? Why aren't there 100 telescopes on the dark side of the moon? Why aren't there 1000 space probes on their way to leave the solar system?

Not sure what you mean. There are several telescopes out in orbit [0].

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_telescope#/media/File%...

Googled a few examples from your list, all of them are retired.

Try to find orbiting telescopes that are actually active.

And even if they were all active (which they are not) then it is still just one or two telescopes per EM band. It should be hundreds.

A journey of a thousand parsecs, begins with one launch.

Begs the question why we are STILL just begining, more than half a century later.

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