home bbs files messages ]

Just a sample of the Echomail archive

Cooperative anarchy at its finest, still active today. Darkrealms is the Zone 1 Hub.

   ASTRONOMY      Staring up at the stars...      26 messages   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]

   Message 7 of 26   
   Wilfred van Velzen to August Abolins   
   Re: Orbital Insertion Burn a Success, We   
   26 Jan 22 10:25:17   
   
   TID: FMail-lnx64 2.1.0.18-B20170815   
   RFC-X-No-Archive: Yes   
   TZUTC: 0100   
   CHRS: UTF-8 2   
   PID: GED+LNX 1.1.5-b20161221   
   MSGID: 2:280/464 61f1137e   
   REPLY: 1:396/45.29@fidonet f8cc2c10   
   * Originally in ASTRONOMY   
   * Crossposted in ASTRONET   
      
   Hi August,   
      
   On 2022-01-26 04:13:00, you wrote to me:   
      
    WvV>> The final mid-course burn added only about 3.6 miles per   
    WvV>> hour (1.6 meters per second) - a mere walking pace - to   
    WvV>> Webb's speed, which was all that was needed to send it to   
    WvV>> its preferred "halo" orbit around the L2 point.   
      
    AA> I hear that it will be June before the first images will be   
    AA> taken and available.   
      
   Yes it will take about half a year for first the cooling down, and afterwards   
   the perfect allignment of all the mirrors... We're talking about nanometer   
   precision here...   
      
   Bye, Wilfred.   
      
   --- FMail-lnx64 2.1.0.18-B20170815   
    * Origin: FMail development HQ (2:280/464)   
   SEEN-BY: 123/120 124/5016 129/330 153/250 757 203/0 218/840 220/70   
   SEEN-BY: 221/0 226/17 229/110 317 426 240/5832 250/5 8 267/800 280/464   
   SEEN-BY: 280/5003 292/854 8125 301/1 305/3 310/31 317/3 320/219 341/234   
   SEEN-BY: 396/45 423/120 633/280 712/848 770/1 100 340 772/220 230   
   PATH: 280/464 770/1 317/3 229/426   
      

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]


(c) 1994,  bbs@darkrealms.ca