radhardened 📡🛰️ 🌈🍵

Spacecraft engineer, chado practitioner, anti-fascist, anti-racist feminist. They/them. Xジェンダー

[radhardened 📡🛰️ 🌈🍵 @RadHardened]

@nascom1 I understand DSS-34 will have a keyhole in tomorrow's contact with @NASAWebb. Since we don't have any HGA pointing issues (that I'm aware of!) I assume this—unlike with SOHO—is caused by some limitation on the ground. Is it a DSS-34 gimbal limitation? Need for a cable unwrap?

[radhardened 📡🛰️ 🌈🍵 @RadHardened]

my infant footprints in concrete at my late grandmother's house (taken with flash)

[radhardened 📡🛰️ 🌈🍵 @RadHardened]

my infant footprints in concrete at my late grandmother's house (taken without flash)

[ESA Webb Telescope @ESA_Webb]

Webb’s #NIRSpec microshutter array observed 48 individual galaxies at the same time – a new technology used for the first time in space. Data revealed light from one galaxy travelled for 13.1 billion years before Webb’s mirrors captured it 👇

[Sarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew]

WOW 🤩 #MIRI #JWST

[radhardened 📡🛰️ 🌈🍵 @RadHardened]

control room snap from NOVA's Ultimate Space Telescope

[radhardened 📡🛰️ 🌈🍵 @RadHardened]

control room snap from NOVA's Ultimate Space Telescope

[NASA @NASA]

"Personally, I went and had an ugly cry. Because it works."

The razor-sharp resolution of the @NASAWebb imagery was enough to bring astrophysicist Jane Rigby to tears. How are you reacting to this telescope's ability to #UnfoldTheUniverse?

[radhardened 📡🛰️ 🌈🍵 @RadHardened]

@tweetsoutloud As I was retweeting that from the #jwst MOC I realized what I happened to be wearing! (see design on shirt 😉)

[radhardened 📡🛰️ 🌈🍵 @RadHardened]

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[Alan Stern @AlanStern]

#PI_Daily Today (June 1) at 21:01 UTC / 5:01pm EDT, we confirmed @NewHorizons2015 had a nominal entry into hibernation. The spacecraft will now hibernate while taking date 24x7 till 1 March! Go New Horizons! #Space #Science #NASA

[radhardened 📡🛰️ 🌈🍵 @RadHardened]

Relatable!

[Bobak Ferdowsi @tweetsoutloud]

Sometimes I’ll say “oh sorry, my computer is having problems” and a friend will suggest calling the help desk and I’ll have to clarify “oh no I mean the flight computer on the spacecraft.”

[CanberraDSN 📡 @CanberraDSN]

Hang in there little space traveler.🙂
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[radhardened 📡🛰️ 🌈🍵 @RadHardened]

Congratulations, @janerrigby!

[NOGLSTP is Out to Innovate @OuttoInnovate]

Our 2022 LGBTQ+ Scientist of the Year is Dr. @janerrigby, an astrophysicist at the NASA Goddard Flight Center & the Operations Project Scientist for the Webb Space Telescope. Rigby develops new techniques to study galaxy evolution, star-forming galaxies, & active galactic nuclei.

[ESA Webb Telescope @ESA_Webb]

Activities are underway for the final phase of the observatory's commissioning, during which the #Webb team will measure the detailed performance of the science instruments before routine science operations begin in the summer. Details: https://t.co/Tpk1faoNiT 📹: @NASAGoddard

[ESA Webb Telescope @ESA_Webb]

Alignment of the James Webb Space Telescope is now complete!👏 These new engineering images of sharply focused stars in the field of view of each instrument demonstrate that #Webb is fully aligned and in focus. Learn more here: https://t.co/DB80wt9e6Y 📷 : NASA/STScI

[Space Telescope Science Institute @SpaceTelescope]

"In the first year of science operations, we expect Webb to write entirely new chapters in the history of our origins – the formation of stars and planets." —@pontoppi, #NASAWebb project scientist, Space Telescope Science Institute ➡️ https://t.co/Bs4fPULeW9

[Nahks @astroNahks]

@spacejammie Rikyū crater on Mercury, for...

1) the name being submitted by my friend
@RadHardened;

2) Sen no Rikyū being one of the founders of Japanese tea ceremony as many know and practice it over the last >400 years.

And... it's even bowl-shaped! 🍵

[radhardened 📡🛰️ 🌈🍵 @RadHardened]

The answers to this delightful prompt remind me how magical and mind blowing the universe really is 🌌

[Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astro_jaz]

What’s your favorite fact about space that seems fake but is actually real? 🔭

[radhardened 📡🛰️ 🌈🍵 @RadHardened]

That's quite a waiting line!

[Richard Stephenson @nascom1]

The DSN is back online! Chandra, SOHO and Geotail the first to build. @NASAWebb and @NASAVoyager 1 had to wait 5 minutes in the staggered start.

[CanberraDSN 📡 @CanberraDSN]

You can never have enough antennas online when communicating with humanity’s most distant robotic explorer @NASAVoyager#1 over 23 billion kilometres from 🌍
5x📡〰〰〰🛰
A five dish array @Madrid_DSN being controlled from @CanberraDSN for @NASAJPL’s Deep Space Network & @NASASCaN