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When the Earth Had Two Moons, planetary geologist Erik Asphaug points out after bearing “the brunt of earth’s gravity for another three years in storage,” when the Galileo mission was finally launched, 2 ribs of the umbrella-like antennae that was to beam data back down failed to open. That forced the back-up antennae, capable of transmitting less than 0.1% of the high-gain antenna’s capacity, to takeover. Enter image compression, now known as the JPEG, and 70% of the data mission was accomplished. Whew.
But sharing his many stories that Columbus knew the size of the earth, it had been established for centuries, but intentionally underbid the cost & complexity to make it happen; how, in the 3
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Science|The Webb Telescope, NASAâs Golden Surfer, Is Almost Ready, Again
Final tests of the James Webb Space Telescopeâs sunshield at a Northrop Grumman facility in Redondo Beach, Calif., in December.Credit.Chris Gunn/NASA
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The Webb Telescope, NASAâs Golden Surfer, Is Almost Ready, Again
After decades of fits and starts, the multibillion dollar successor to the Hubble telescope is expected to launch as soon as this fall.
Final tests of the James Webb Space Telescopeâs sunshield at a Northrop Grumman facility in Redondo Beach, Calif., in December.Credit.Chris Gunn/NASA
Published Feb. 2, 2021Updated Feb. 3, 2021
Dennis Overbye, The New York Times
Published: 02 Feb 2021 04:22 PM BdST
Updated: 02 Feb 2021 04:22 PM BdST In a photo provided by NASA, final tests of the James Webb Space Telescope’s sunshield at a Northrop Grumman facility in Redondo Beach, Calif, in December 2020. NASA via The New York Times
Birthing a new space telescope takes a long time and a lot of money and inspiration. Astronomers first began pestering NASA for the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope even before that telescope was launched into orbit in 1990. Back then they thought it could cost less than $1 billion and be ready in the first decade of the 21st century.
Embezzler who swindled Marin philanthropist gets prison [The Marin Independent Journal, Novato, Calif.]
Dec. 27 An East Bay man was sentenced to four years in prison for embezzling more than $800,000 from a Marin County philanthropist and her charitable foundation.
Michael Livingston Henry, 45, of Oakland worked as the woman’s office assistant from 2006 to 2018. The philanthropist and the foundation were based in Tiburon and then Bolinas, according to court records.
“While employed there, Henry stole in excess of $800,000 by forging the philanthropist’s signature on hundreds of checks, many of which were made out to Henry personally or to his side business, Hella,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office in San Francisco said in an sentencing announcement.