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by: Martin Brown - Mon, 2 Oct 2023 17:01 UTC

On 02/10/2023 03:47, RichA wrote:
> https://tech.news.am/eng/news/1822/euclid-telescope-takes-first-photos-a-flaw-found-in-it-can-lead-to-failure-of-entire-project-photo.html

Ever the optimist aren't you!

OK so it has a light leak but in space that is much less of a problem
provided you can keep the leak on the dark side of the telescope.

They should still be able to get enough data to be useful - just not as
much as they would without that irritating problem.

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Martin Brown

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by: Chris L Peterson - Mon, 2 Oct 2023 21:59 UTC

On Mon, 2 Oct 2023 14:28:20 -0700 (PDT), RichA <rander3128@gmail.com>
wrote:

>On Monday, 2 October 2023 at 13:01:44 UTC-4, Martin Brown wrote:
>> On 02/10/2023 03:47, RichA wrote:
>> > https://tech.news.am/eng/news/1822/euclid-telescope-takes-first-photos-a-flaw-found-in-it-can-lead-to-failure-of-entire-project-photo.html
>>
>> Ever the optimist aren't you!
>>
>> OK so it has a light leak but in space that is much less of a problem
>> provided you can keep the leak on the dark side of the telescope.
>>
>> They should still be able to get enough data to be useful - just not as
>> much as they would without that irritating problem.
>>
>> --
>> Martin Brown
>
>The bumbling on multi-million $$$ projects is ridiculous. Especially considering the PEOPLE in-charge are all supposed to be part of the intellectual elite.

It makes the bumbling we'd see if you were part of the design team
truly staggering!

To err is human -- to blame it on a computer is even more so.

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Re: Expensive Euclid space scope fatally-flawed?	Martin Brown
Re: Expensive Euclid space scope fatally-flawed?	Chris L Peterson