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Crikey that's late.
Web telescope was originally meant to be up there in 2007 then 2011 then 14 and then 18 .
14vyears late us some delay

I suppose another problem is the techonolgy keeps advancing so quickly, not sure if that was any of the delays, but expect it all has to be weighed up.
 
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It launches on October 31.
Not sure how long these things take to get set for the first images to be revealed!

I don't know anything about. Not read up on it at all. But if we can get images from Mars so quickly these days it should be pretty quick.
 
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I don't know anything about. Not read up on it at all. But if we can get images from Mars so quickly these days it should be pretty quick.
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Already planning another from one of these 4.
Space suddenly seems to be the hot future business opertunity
 
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Already planning another from one of these 4.
Space suddenly seems to be the hot future business opertunity

Incredible.

So each of those will focus on exploring the respective targets underneath? i.e. HABEX will be looking for Earth like Exoplants?

Sadly we won't be seeing it in our lifetime.
 
Incredible.

So each of those will focus on exploring the respective targets underneath? i.e. HABEX will be looking for Earth like Exoplants?

Sadly we won't be seeing it in our lifetime.
I think they are choosing
Incredible.

So each of those will focus on exploring the respective targets underneath? i.e. HABEX will be looking for Earth like Exoplants?

Sadly we won't be seeing it in our lifetime.
I think they are 4 proposals and one will be selected
 
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Pale Blue Dot, by Carl Sagan

Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there -- on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

--Carl Sagan, _Pale Blue Dot_, 1994
 
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