"The spacecraft will soon reach its final position."
  • @[email protected]English
    22•1 year ago

    Why did we talk so much about James Webb and I’m only discovering about this telescope now ?

    A telescope designed for dark energy !

    • @[email protected]English
      20•1 year ago

      At least part of it is that NASA is good at marketing. They make cool shit and hype up the public so we all know how cool it is too. Soon they’ll be launching a NASA+ streaming service that’s completely free. All their video and live content in one place. They’re genuinely one of the coolest public entities I know about, and part of why I know about them is because they’re so good at marketing their projects to the lay public.

        • tal
          3•1 year ago

          It was, in fact, the regular, no “+” NASA that required the tax dollars.

    • tal
      5•1 year ago

      Why did we talk so much about James Webb

      At least on /r/europe on Reddit, I think because it was being launched by a European rocket from a European spaceport, so there was a lot of discussion about Arianne. The scope was extremely expensive, so rebuilding it probably wouldn’t be an option, and Arianne 5 was a particularly reliable launch platform.

      Amusingly, this new Euclid scope is the mirror opposite of JWST: a principally-European scope launched by an American rocket from an American spaceport.

  • @Macaroni_ninjaEnglish
    18•1 year ago

    What a weird title. Was it not supposed to work? Was anything wrong with it?

    • tal
      8•1 year ago

      I suspect that this was in the context of the James Webb Space Telescope launching and (a) having a complicated “unfolding” process and (b) being so far out that it couldn’t be the target of a Hubble Telescope-style repair mission, so people are thinking about telescopes activating and maybe not working.

    • @bouhEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      In space things don’t always go as expected, and it’s hard to send tech support. So it’s always a relief when your 1.5b project works as expected.

  • @reddig33English
    4•1 year ago

    That’s a hell of a lot of money for a single telescope.

    • tal
      3•1 year ago

      That’s a hell of a lot of money for a single telescope.

      I mean, right here you can see telescopes being sold for $49.99 on Amazon. It makes one question the entire budgetary process behind this Euclid scope.

      EDIT: Not to mention that the Amazon one comes with a tripod, and as best I can tell from this article and Wikipedia, the Euclid scope doesn’t have anything of the sort. If we could get Josef Aschbacher here right now, I think that the no-tripod issue would definitely be an incisive question to raise with him.