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Europe turns its new $1.5 billion space telescope on, and happily it works (arstechnica.com)
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[-] tal@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

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 1 year ago

Thank you. It makes more sense now

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