AaS! 165: What Comes After the James Webb Space Telescope?
Ask a Spaceman!
Paul M. Sutter
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🗓️ 7 December 2021
⏱️ 35 minutes
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What missions will come after the James Webb Space Telescope launches? What new discoveries await us? How long will they take to start? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman!
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| 1:17.5 | You know, it's a little like the day after Christmas. It's, there's a little bit of sadness, isn't there? |
| 1:29.0 | We've been waiting for the James Webb for a long time. It's only been like a decade late. |
| 1:37.6 | But it's, it's finally here. And I mean, hopefully it's here. I'm releasing this episode shortly before the launch, the expected launch date of December 18th, 2021. |
| 1:51.8 | Hopefully I'm crossing my fingers here that this works in the past tense as well, so that if you're listening to this far and to the future, the James Webb is already at its station. It's already |
| 2:01.8 | taking data and we already have new revelations of the cosmos and all that good stuff. So I'm |
| 2:06.3 | crossing my fingers. But let's assume that the thing is going to launch. We've been waiting |
| 2:11.8 | forever for it. Well, now what? We got our telescope. We got this amazing piece of technology. We waited over a decade for it. And we spent $10 billion at least on it. And it's just, it's here. Now what? And don't get me wrong, the James Webb is an amazing telescope. It really is. It's an infrared |
| 2:36.1 | telescope and it's billed as the successor to the Hubble, but not really. It is going to |
| 2:41.1 | deliver amazing pictures, which the Hubble is famous for. But the Hubble was an optical telescope |
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