/sci/ - Science & Math

>>15183843
not the only thing which routinely shakes public trust in space development. picrel jwst construction timeline from 2019 listing everything ahead of schedule when jwst was intended to launch in 2007. spacefags lie about absolutely everything, they have no conscience, they only care about public appearances.

>>14591207
the astrofaggot sector of the economy already employs literally hundreds of space rock experts, the warnings those idiots sent to the cosmology idiots were ignored because they conflicted with the cosmology idiots' grandiose desires for a $100 billion status symobol telescope at a lagrange point.

Is NASA faking success of launch stress test results for JWST?

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/nasa-s-james-webb-space-telescope-completes-environmental-testing
>Oct. 6, 2020
>With the completion of its latest series of milestone tests, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has now survived all of the harsh conditions associated with a rocket launch to space.

https://spacenews.com/jwst-remains-on-track-for-october-2021-launch/
>October 20, 2020
>JWST is still dealing with some technical issues. One ongoing one is a concern that residual air trapped in the folded sunshield could overstress it when the Ariane 5 that launches the spacecraft jettisons the payload fairing. Smith said the program has been working with Arianespace to change air vents in the fairing.

>On two Ariane 5 launches with the new vents, sensors measured residual air pressures inside the fairing nearly double the rated capability of the sunshield. “There’s a little more pencil sharpening that has to be done on this issue,” he said.

>That work includes work by NASA and Northrop Grumman to see if the spacecraft can tolerate the higher residual pressures measured on the launches. If not, he said some parts of the spacecraft may need to be “patched” to handle the higher pressures, work he said would be completed by December.

>“It’s only a few places in the sunshield where it feels the stress above requirements,” he said. Any patching work, he estimated, would require no more than a few days of schedule margin.

Are they planning to have the launch fail because they can't get the thing built correctly?
A launch failure is wonderful spectacular way to scuttle the project without anyone having to acknowledge the waste

JWST - originally designed in 1995 for launch in 2007 with a price tag of $500 million, it has now costed over $15 billion and probably will never launch, it'll just keep on being "delayed" until someone finally pulls the plug.

JWST
$15 billion stolen and nothing produced

>>11612764
They haven't updated the status page in over two months. Its over

>JWST status page not updated in over a month
https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/status/index.html
>Nothing listed as completed for February
what gives, why the work stoppage? they were listing two or three tasks completed every month last year

cant see shit

https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/status/index.html
Is there any way to look up what the future deadlines are for JWST? The status page only shows stuff that they've already completed, but with launch only a year away it seems like they must have a schedule of deadlines somewhere.

>>11386757
>Its built, they are just testing.
you lie, they're still getting parts delivered.
https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/status/index.html
they were just awarded another $1.7billion of government mad money taken out of other people's pockets by force so the sadistic thieving bastards that run the show are all by guaranteed to be announcing another delay shorty. that will guarantee them the opportunity to demand further budget increased in the future.
taxes are one thing if its some sort of legit effort to benefit everyone, but wasting those fund on autistic incompetent losers who take their stupid worthless cope hobby way too seriously.

FORTUNES WASTED TO PLEASE SOIKEK SCIFI SOIENCE FANBOIS
>Boeing’s Starliner problems worse than previously thought
>Big government "science" fails dramatically again
>"Not worth 1% of whats spent on it"
https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/02/boeings-starliner-problems-may-be-worse-than-we-thought/
On Friday, officials from NASA and Boeing held a teleconference with reporters to discuss issues related to the Starliner spacecraft's performance during an orbital test flight in December.

Although an independent review team remains in the midst of an investigation that will not conclude until the end of February, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said he convened the call in the "interest of transparency."

FURTHER READING
Starliner faced “catastrophic” failure before software bug found
The call followed an explosive revelation on Thursday, at a meeting of NASA's Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel, that the Starliner spacecraft encountered a second major software issue that could have resulted in a total loss of the vehicle. At the outset of the media call, Bridenstine acknowledged that Starliner's flight had "a lot of anomalies." The agency published a summary here. At this point, it seems that NASA and Boeing do not yet know what they don't know about the problems, and it will take some time to sort all of this out.

Software problems

The first software error was well reported in the immediate aftermath of Starliner's launch. The spacecraft captured the wrong "mission elapsed time" from its Atlas V launch vehicle—it was supposed to pick up this time during the terminal phase of the countdown, but instead it grabbed data 11 hours off of the correct time.

How come the top item in the JWST status page is listed in the December section if it was completed ahead of schedule in November like it says it was?
Also why hasn't the status page been updated at all yet this year?

>>11275952