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Europe turns its new $1.5 billion space telescope on, and happily it works (arstechnica.com)

submitted 2 years ago by boem@lemmy.world to c/europe@feddit.de

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[–] Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

[–] tal@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Thank you. It makes more sense now

[–] bacondragonoverlord@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Well there was Hubble...

[–] tal@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Well, it sort of worked even prior to the mirror fix.

https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/space-missions/what-was-wrong-with-hubble-mirror-how-was-it-fixed/

Still, even this compromised Hubble was far more capable than any ground-based observatory.

[–] bouh@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years 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.