James Webb Space Telescope

http://www.chakoteya.net/NextGen/225.htm

The Inner Light [ Star Trek: The Next Generation ]

Stardate: 45944.1

Original Airdate: 1 Jun, 1992


MERIBOR: Some children are certainly making a lot of noise in here.

PICARD: You shouldn't be outside so long. It's damaging, you know that.

MERIBOR: I'm wearing plenty of your skin protector.

PICARD: How about you, young man? Do you wear your skin protector outdoors? You do? Good boy.

BATAI JR: (now with his father's hairline) Happy day, everybody. It's time to go see the launching.

PICARD: What launching? What's he talking about?

MERIBOR: They're sending up a missile, Father. We're going to watch it.

PICARD: I'm not going anywhere to watch anything.

BATAI JR: Come on, Kamie. Hurry up now. Let's go see the launching.

(Batai puts a hat on his nephew and they leave)

PICARD: It breaks my heart to look at him.

MERIBOR: Who?

PICARD: My grandson. It breaks my heart. He deserves a rich, full life, and he's not going to get one.

MERIBOR: Please come, Father.

PICARD: Why didn't I hear anything about a launching?










http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/ESA_confirms_James_Webb_telescope_Ariane_launch

EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY


ESA CONFIRMS JAMES WEBB TELESCOPE ARIANE LAUNCH

17 December 2015

The next great space observatory took a step closer this week when ESA signed the contract with Arianespace that will see the James Webb Space Telescope launched on an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou in October 2018.

Ariane is part of the European contribution to the cooperative mission with NASA and the Canadian Space Agency, along with two of the four state-of-the-art science instruments for infrared observations of the Universe.

The telescope’s wide range of targets includes detecting the first galaxies in the Universe and following their evolution over cosmic time, witnessing the birth of new stars and their planetary systems, and studying planets in our Solar System and around other stars.

With a 6.5 m-diameter telescope, the observatory must be launched folded up inside Ariane’s fairing. The 6.6 tonne craft will begin unfolding shortly after launch, once en route to its operating position some 1.5 million km from Earth on the anti-sunward side.

The contract includes a cleaner fairing and integration facility to avoid contaminating the sensitive telescope optics.

“With this key contract now in place with our long-standing partners, we are closer than ever to seeing the scientific goals of this next-generation space observatory realised,” says Jan Woerner, ESA’s Director General.

“This agreement is a significant milestone,” says Eric Smith, NASA’s JWST programme director. “The years of hard work and excellent collaboration between the NASA, ESA and Arianespace teams that have made this possible are testimony to their dedication to the world’s next great space telescope.”

“It is a great honour for Arianespace to be entrusted with the launch of JWST, a major space observatory which will enable science to make a leap forward in its quest of understanding our Universe,” said Stéphane Israël, Chairman and CEO of Arianespace.

“It is also an immense privilege to be part of such an international endeavour gathering the best of US, European and Canadian space technology and industry.”

JWST’s science module, with all four flight instruments, is undergoing final tests at cryogenic temperatures at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Assembly of the 18 mirror segments, which will unfold after launch, is also now underway.

“With the launch service agreement formally agreed, and with NASA’s continuing solid progress of integrating and testing JWST, we keep the steady pace towards the launch in October 2018,” says Peter Jensen, ESA’s project manager.










From 6/1/1992 ( premiere US TV series episode "Star Trek: The Next Generation"::"The Inner Light" ) To 10/18/2018 is 9635 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 3/20/1992 ( premiere US film "Basic Instinct" ) is 9635 days










http://www.chakoteya.net/NextGen/225.htm

The Inner Light [ Star Trek: The Next Generation ]

Stardate: 45944.1

Original Airdate: 1 Jun, 1992


[Town square]

(everyone is in broad rimmed sunhats and loose clothing)

PICARD: Did everyone know about this except me? I'll be all right sitting here. You go off with the others. Hold onto my grandson, and watch the damned thing go up for all the good it'll do. What is it they're launching?

MERIBOR: You know about it, Father. You've already seen it.

PICARD: Seen it? What are you talking about? I haven't seen any missile.

BATAI: Yes, you have, old friend. Don't you remember?

PICARD: Batai?

(Batai as the healthy middle-aged man we first met)

BATAI: You saw it just before you came here. We hoped our probe would encounter someone in the future. Someone who could be a teacher. Someone who could tell the others about us.

PICARD: Oh, it's me, isn't it? I'm the someone. I'm the one it finds. That's what this launching is. A probe that finds me in the future.



- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 07:09 AM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Sunday 27 November 2016