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Unknown: Cosmic Time Machine

It's not one of the best models of Webb, but it's good enoughto show most people the...

It's not one of the best models of Webb, but it's good enough
to show most people the features. There's the primary mirror.
Starlight comes in, hits the primary mirror,
gets focused down to the secondary mirror, and gets sent
into this, uh, black pyramidal structure. After that, it goes back here
where the instruments are. The cameras, the spectrometers... [FOIL RATTLING] I'm sorry, the... the glue
is coming a little loose on this, but this right here is the sunshield

Full Transcript

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It's not one of the best models of Webb,
00:00:02.096 --> 00:00:05.421
but it's good enough to show most people the features.
00:00:05.504 --> 00:00:08.174
There's the primary mirror. Starlight comes in,
00:00:08.257 --> 00:00:12.344
hits the primary mirror, gets focused down to the secondary mirror,
00:00:12.428 --> 00:00:16.307
and gets sent into this, uh, black pyramidal structure.
00:00:16.039 --> 00:00:19.643
After that, it goes back here where the instruments are.
00:00:19.727 --> 00:00:21.562
The cameras, the spectrometers...
00:00:22.001 --> 00:00:23.522
[FOIL RATTLING]
00:00:23.606 --> 00:00:26.015
I'm sorry, the... the glue is coming a little loose on this,
00:00:26.233 --> 00:00:28.903
but this right here is the sunshield.
Duration
30 seconds
Views
70
Timestamp in Movie
00:13:54
Uploaded
Apr 13, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
N/A

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Movie Summary

Follows a team of engineers and scientists in an ambitious mission to launch the James Webb Space Telescope and take the next giant leap in the understanding of the universe.
Fourteen days after launch, we latch both sides of the primary mirror. - Unknown: Cosmic Time Machine 00:46
Fourteen days after launch, we latch both sides of the prima...
[AMBER] NASA actually retrofitted - Unknown: Cosmic Time Machine 00:18
[AMBER] NASA actually retrofitted
[MIKE CHUCKLING] It's the size of a three-story building, - Unknown: Cosmic Time Machine 00:50
[MIKE CHUCKLING] It's the size of a three-story buildin...
I remember it getting ready for vibration and acoustics. - Unknown: Cosmic Time Machine 00:31
I remember it getting ready for vibration and acoustics.
The team, they were always amazing people. - Unknown: Cosmic Time Machine 00:57
The team, they were always amazing people.
it worked the first time. - Unknown: Cosmic Time Machine 00:19
it worked the first time.
We have a mission that's basically ready. - Unknown: Cosmic Time Machine 00:15
We have a mission that's basically ready.
[AMBER] All of these years we've put into getting this telescope - Unknown: Cosmic Time Machine 00:12
[AMBER] All of these years we've put into getting this ...
[SIRENS WAILING] - Unknown: Cosmic Time Machine 00:10
[SIRENS WAILING]
[MIKE] Do I like launches? Well... - Unknown: Cosmic Time Machine 00:15
[MIKE] Do I like launches? Well...
We are just about 12 hours from launching. Fingers crossed that the weather holds, - Unknown: Cosmic Time Machine 00:21
We are just about 12 hours from launching. Fingers crossed t...
[THOMAS] I write both speeches by myself. - Unknown: Cosmic Time Machine 00:54
[THOMAS] I write both speeches by myself.
[MAN IN FRENCH] All propulsion parameters are normal. Trajectory is normal. - Unknown: Cosmic Time Machine 00:06
[MAN IN FRENCH] All propulsion parameters are normal. Trajec...
[THOMAS IN ENGLISH] "Today's launch was not successful, - Unknown: Cosmic Time Machine 00:41
[THOMAS IN ENGLISH] "Today's launch was not succes...
[CLANKS] - Unknown: Cosmic Time Machine 00:06
[CLANKS]
{\an8}[MAN IN FRENCH] ESC shutdown. - Unknown: Cosmic Time Machine 00:16
{\an8}[MAN IN FRENCH] ESC shutdown.
[MAN IN FRENCH] Separation of the Webb Telescope. - Unknown: Cosmic Time Machine 00:08
[MAN IN FRENCH] Separation of the Webb Telescope.
[BOTH CHUCKLING] - Unknown: Cosmic Time Machine 00:14
[BOTH CHUCKLING]
Webb will remain on internal battery power until its singular solar array unfurls. - Unknown: Cosmic Time Machine 00:11
Webb will remain on internal battery power until its singula...
[MALE REPORTER] Webb now, uh, has its array out, - Unknown: Cosmic Time Machine 00:21
[MALE REPORTER] Webb now, uh, has its array out,