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The JWST's first space images, YouTube TV's bundle bet, and the Vergecast Hotline Q&A

The Vergecast

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Getting to the Launch Pad for J W T

The mission has been besought by delays because they've had to be tedious in their work. So i'm sure the tedium of being in space probably doesn't even compare to the amount of testing and deployment and simulations that they've run on the ground for the last, you know, 20 something years. The four instruments each have different operating modes, so they had to verify that those operating modes were working correctly too. It involved a lot of taking measurements, doing demonstrations, looking at target objects, target stars, and taking data from that. Andth ancross, checking from what we know about the stars and the galaxies in our universe.

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