Forums before death by AOL, social media and spammers... "We can't have nice things"
|    sci.space.policy    |    Discussions about space policy    |    106,651 messages    |
[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]
|    Message 105,638 of 106,651    |
|    Snidely to All    |
|    Re: Merry Christmas from JWST    |
|    31 Dec 21 02:54:07    |
      From: snidely.too@gmail.com              Thus spake Alain Fournier:              > About 10 hours later both the hot and cold sides have heated up. Why? The       > sunshield has started to deploy for a few days and deployment should be       > completed at launch +5.5 days (in a few hours). My guess is that it was       > launched with a limited stock of coolant that has boiled off and that the       > sunshield will take care of keeping it cool now.              The coolant is supposed to last for the 10 year mission. And the       limiting resource for the 10 year figure is propellant.              /dps              --       I have always been glad we weren't killed that night. I do not know       any particular reason, but I have always been glad.        _Roughing It_, Mark Twain              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]
(c) 1994, bbs@darkrealms.ca