I’d say it’s tied between demo-2 and jwst, but considering jwst cost more than the entire commercial crew program this is definitely the most expensive launch of the century. That thing costs almost as much as an aircraft carrier
For all its complexity, the total cost of the Webb Space Telescope is equal to five days worth of spending on our military budget. If we factor in the amount of time it took for this program to develop, the cost per year of this program is even less.
Yes. And this fact should be something expressed more often. It's not even funny anymore how much ingenuity, money and time is wasted on silly things to kill each other or ourselves. When there is clearly a bigger picture up there and it's been right above us this entire time.
@@AbbyTheAbinator I agree; the word I like over expectation is anticipation. We can then place a more eager and less demanding hopefulness into our daily lives. JWST is something to treasure, and I feel great to be alive at 69 years of age to witness this amazing leap forward in our exploration of the Universe. One Christmas morning, I awoke to unwrap an amazing present my Dad had placed underneath the tree; it was a fully functioning model layout of Cape Canaveral, with the Saturn V rocket with Apollo spacecraft sitting atop, ready for launch. Anticipate success. Because sometimes the magic works.
the fact that our testing and production are so efficient at this point that the launch date is moving by weeks or days by now to me is a monolith of the past 64 years and 2 months of space exploration
Why is the rest of the world not talking about this ? This has the potential to be one of those pivotal moments in mankind's history. This telescope has the power to turn hypothesis's into theories and theories into facts !
Yes. Real Engineering recently did a great episode about the WEBB but so many possible failure points is a bit concerning. Fingers crossed that it all goes as planned.
I have been watching the Jack Webb telescope being built since it was first proposed several decades ago. I am 70 now and if the telescope fails I suspect my family is going to see a grown man cry.
It's really scary, to think about all of those 300 failure points. I've been hearing about this project since so long, and now it's launching. I really hope to hear good news about it next year.
Yeah, let's hope it goes well. Been waiting for for the launch for so long and the project has cost so much at this point. Would really suck if it failed now. 😬
One shot to rule them all. God speed Ariane. This single launch opens the door for very complicated payloads such as self assembling multipart telescopes and space based craft assembly plants of the future. What we learn here will enable all sorts of interesting space manufacturing possibilities.
I have a hope that AI will help us improve the manufacturing process of more advanced telescopes that "build themselves" with less costs and delays. With all the data gathered through is construction, there'll be enough information on how to build them faster, more efficiently and automatically.
What a wonderful event. Its collectively brought us all together around the world, its remarkable. To me its akin to world peace. We all forget our different walks of life and enjoy this event together. Even though I haven't done anything personally to help this project, I feel like I'm still apart of it. Which is something humanity needs to focus on doing more. Nervously fingers crossed, accomplishment or failure, this will/has been very exciting and rekindled my hope for the future.
@@BigDsGaming2022 true, time and time again we still show such tendencies. But there are brief moments with strangers or people in your life where you feel connected, connection is proof we all can have compassion.... I think it's been long enough of us looking like a bunch of children in the mud playing war games. Cause that's how we'd definitely look to an outside viewer from space lol
Wonder what kind of odds Vegas is giving on this whole thing, I can't imagine the mental stress on so many people involved in so many details of so many aspects of this whole project...best wishes.
When dealing with space it takes 1 tiny error an it's game over, even tho they took there time an tested everything, the odds of this being successful is greatly against them
I'm excited for the things we will learn that haven't been anticipated so far.. Hubble brought us many surprises and this has even greater potential to stun us all..
I have fingers toes legs and arms crossed that this telescope fires correctly 300+ times to unfold. I am not even worried an iota about lift off. The Ariane rocket is totally dependable, it's what happens days after that we should worry. Say a prayer and cross everything you find. Thanks as always for keeping us posted with your outstanding RU-vid Channel.
I got a lot older waiting for this bloody thing... from when I first heard about it till now. I'm also waiting for the giant space mirror that could light up target areas at night that I heard about when I was a kid. It would be very cool to have a mini-artificial sun for emergency lighting.
I've been having Webb induced anxiety issues for a couple of weeks now, and I'm just your average amateur astronomer. I can't even imagine what the Webb team is going through. I'm praying with them 🙏
It is an exciting time to be living, JWT will make it even more exciting. Thanks so much for the video. As always, its excellent. I can't wait for your next one.
I think the content of what this telescope will teach us has a match: The superb engineering needed to make it possible. Unprecedented. It's almost as if anything the telescope actually shows us is unnecessary (don't throw things at me!); it's the engineering that is another marvel. I know I'm saying this badly. But, grace.
@@veramae4098 It is an engineering marvel! Also the math and the astrophysics to get it to L2 is phenomenal. I am certainly going to watch the launch. I will be holding my breath until it has escaped earth. I'll breath and watch it unfold and get to its observation base 900 million miles from home.
he transports himself to millions of houses across the globe in a span of ~16 hours his input needless to say has been imperative for these kinds of maneuvers
@@livonia1807 And here you are replying to a random comment on a video about something you don’t care about at all . You must live such an interesting life💀
I'm very excited for launch and even more excited for the first images from Webb. Gonna be a while to wait though, but we've made it this far already, whats another six month!
This instrument, the engineers, the scientists and the organizations responsible are at the pinnacle of what humans can accomplish. The data that will be generated will revolutionize astronomy. 🤞🤞🤞
I am heavily trained in science (Aerospace and Mechanical Engineer, life long amateur astronomer), and believe in God. They are not mutually exclusive and each has a place. Many of our great astronomers were Theists (Newton, Copernicus, Kepler) and the scientist who developed the initial Big Bang Theory was a Catholic Priest (Msgr Georges Lemaitre). When the theory was debated in the 1930s, at the time, some Atheists did not like the theory because it implied a creation, they preferred the then Steady State Theory (the Universe always existed). Astronomy neither proves or disproves the existence of God. It investigates the nature of the universe. A Theist and Atheist can work in this field without issue. Personally, as someone who does believe in God, I see astronomy as a peek at how God constructed the universe. But that is a matter of Faith and is outside the realm of science itself.
@White Raptor News Well, I have no problem having a civil conversation about theology and science, and respect other's views of Faith or lack of Faith (for the record, I am Catholic). We have free will in our souls afterall. But it seems your mind is pretty much set, and you assume a lot about me without knowing me, so I see no reason to continue the conversation. Have a good day and Merry Christmas.
Norman, I agree. The engineering behind this is remarkable and insanely incredible. I remember when Hubble was launched, and how much astronomy changed since the 1990s. JWST will have a similar revolution. I am most excited about seeing the first galaxies and stars after the Big Bang as well as exoplanets. Good time to be alive!!!
Ive been waiting my whole life for this, being born in the 80's I grew up with all the glory and mystery of the Hubble. That changed the world. Now its Webbs turn to blow our minds. Cant wait!!
When you consider how much work has gone into putting the whole project together, we shouldn't make a big deal because of delays that will make sure the operation works well, better make sure all the " tees " are crossed
Everything that has gone into this project is nail biting, I can't pretend to know what the people whom are involved with it are going through, just want them to know that I'm with them, you are all the best 🥇
Through a NASA friend, I traveled to Goddard to see it back in 2018. I'm so appreciative for the opportunity to have seen it & I have never been so interested in something I know so little about. Thanks for the video- wonderful info.
Praying to the gods of aerospace technology for a flawless launch and trouble free deployment. Knocking on titanium plate and rubbing my lucky carbon fiber rod.
Well one of those gods is Webb, so hopefully the other gods aren't jealous, or at the very least less powerful than Webb. I'm praying to Jupiter. Not the god but the planet, and his 4 kick ass moons, hoping they look after their new artificial satellite younger brother when Earth births him.
This is the most exciting thing for me since Halley's Comet swung by last... Hubble was OK, there were some great images, but JWST is next-level stuff. Good luck to the mission team.
@@Pit1993x Hubble was essentially blind for the first 3 years of its mission, that kind of took the shine off it. And it's largely visible-spectrum with a little to either side... it did take some beautiful pictures. JWST though, is infrared, and will look billions of years further into the past than we have ever seen. We will see closer to the first quarter of a billion years of the universe, maybe earlier even, possibly to about 100 million years or so. THAT is next level.
@@mspicer3262 Disagree. Hubble's contributions to science were pretty groundbreaking. It helped prove and determine the rate of expansion of the universe, the age of the universe, discovered exoplanets, and more. No shine lost because of its first 3 years. It's an amazing scientific instrument. JWST will be absolute next level, but so was Hubble when it launched. Calling it just "ok" is an understatement.
You know the feeling you get when they launch a satellite? Like: uhhh that blew up, what a shame. James Webb launch be like: there are human babys on that rocket!!!! Don't f*** this one up!!!
Pretty cool engineering keeping it operating. I remember the 1990 launch of Hubble. At the time, I do not think anyone expected it to be still functional three decades later!
Great reporting delivery on your part. You put a lot fun to it. I really enjoy the light touch you put into going over these technical stuff. Hopefully WEBB will achieve a successful Lagrange Point rendezvous.
we only tackle about it during our junior high school days, and now it becomes a reality. Wishing the James Webb Telescope a magnificent launch and providing us significant data crucial to the history of our universe and future astronomical phenomenon
Been so focused on JWST lately that I think it’s my new girlfriend. Like I’m so excited, worried, anxious and filled with expectation that every morning I wake up chancing the date and counting down, I watch at least three new videos about her everyday. Learning and re learning everything about her. 🙏🏽
I really hope the JWST avoids impacts on it’s way out. Not just from debris in Earth orbit but any dust circling the Earth out at the distance of the Moon.
I really don't care how long they delay this thing. If they need another 3 months to check everything over another 20 times, that's fine. The one thing I dread happening is that something might go wrong once it's up there - I'd be absolutely shattered.
Takes more than a whiff to kill you. I used to load the same propellants on Titan III rockets, 50 times more than used in Webb. We had to unload 10 tanker trucks into storage tanks for each launch, plus change out 8 filters between each launch. We didn't wear scape suits but used canister masks or just stood upwind. Everybody would get a whiff during these operations, but nobody died.
Indian Space Organization here, we have taken care of Santa's flight path on Christmas Eve, he was happy to oblige. Santa has revealed that he will be watching the launch from the North Pole before setting out. Merry Christmas everyone
