Webb Mirror Coating B-roll Footage
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- čas přidán 21. 08. 2024
- Each of James Webb Space Telescope's mirrors is made of beryllium and coated with a very thin layer of gold to improve the mirror's ability to reflect infrared light. This b-roll footage shows the coating process.
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Producer: Michael McClare
Videographer: Michael McClare
In this video, I was privileged to be the Supplier inspector that was charged with watching every movement of each mirror and every operation on it to make sure that all safety procedures were read and then followed. That was my reflection in the mirror when it was flipped after coating to face the wall. I'm sure the NASA photographer was surprised to catch me in the shot.
Thanks for the insight!
So, burning question.
Does my bum look big in that?
Was gonna say your bum, but that's rude.
Cheers for your part in this.
Very cool. It must be amazing to follow the launch and deployment knowing your work is up there.
Did you use PVD to coat the mirrors ?
That was a nice shot hehe
I honestly prefer unedited raw footage like this
Same. Leagues better than some affirmative action female narrator who does not even has an education in MINT (like on the NASA and JPL channels in the past). Also the raw videos tend to be more interesting than some press release version that is polished but dumbed down to the least common denominator.
i cannot agree more.
Same way i like my pornos 😅
@@hobbygaertner420 "insert comment" This is one of few places that I did not expect to encounter such dumb and racist comments but I guess it just goes to show that the trump inspired clan are pervasive! And oh "insert P.S." I also enjoyed the footage without narration.
@@benji7587 some minority got offended i think
This B-roll footage is great. Please upload more.
I hear this was shot with a camera made out of b-rollium.
The people who do these kind of jobs are SO meticulous. The amount of patience and precision is something I could never have.
Just imagine doing all this work to remove all dust and contaminates and then it gets dust on it while up in space
yeah you'd think this specific task wouldn't be performed by a human but rather a robot of some sort judging by the price tag of this whole mission.
That mirror is part of a $10 billion dollar project, I would say it's worth a couple million for sure and not just cause it's plated with a little bit of gold. I'd be having a heart attack playing with something that valuable, it almost makes sense why they go so slow and are so precise.
Are you generation TikTok? :D
@@melazmusic The human hand of a trained and sensitive person still beats any robot.
How must it feel to see your close up reflection in a mirror that will reveal the chemical composition of planets atmospheres orbiting stars in distant galaxies, peer right back to the furthest reaches of time and potentially unlock new laws of nature?
Sebastian Clarke wow
I'm still gonna feel fat.
If it ever launches .I've birthed children abs put them through college since I first heard of it lol. They landed on the moon quicker.
@@dadsonworldwide3238 A full 5% of our gross domestic product went into the Apollo mission. If we ever make such a huge science mission, it should be in climate change and asteroid defense.
Assuming it even works properly if it ever gets finished in the next 10 years
What a chamber!
My dad coated the hubbles main mirror!
These technicians will have a story to tell their family for generations!
Definitely :)
Having a Dad working on this must be worth some serious flexing. I wish you and yours all the best.
My heart is beating fast whenever they're moving the reflectors
This really gives a good idea as to the size of this telescope ( it's huge!) and it's mind blowing how much work went into it. I didn't know anything about Webb until the launch, but have been following it's progress intently. Can't wait for the first pictures to come back. What a marvellous creation, everyone involved has my gratitude and admiration.
You skipped a lot of the anxiety then :D
Many of us have been following its progress... for what feels like centuries.
It's amazing that it has so far done so well after launch. So many points of failure.
To the James Webb Space Telescope Channel Representative, WE LOVE THIS AND WE WANT MORE. Thank you very much.
+10000000
Agree, more B roll footage please!!
My phone screen isn’t clean enough to show how clean that hexagon is lol
I am from the future. Today the telescope has successfully completed its major deployments in space !
A great day for the solar system
These are the best videos, without annoying music and narration. The clip speaks for itself.
Being someone that's used to work in mirror and anti reflective coating for almost 6 years. Knowing how absolutely important it is to make sure that your medium (your material to be mirrored or coated) has to be absolutely spotless to avoid having voids on the mirror. Also the cleanliness of the machine itself can cause issues. You're dealing with nanometers of thickness one of the layers I worked with was only .53 of a nanometer. I can appreciate the amount of work that this team did because I know how meticulous you have to be to create such flawless coatings. And just the amount of coating knowledge needed to operate such a machine.
First decent reason I've had to clean my monitor in a while.
Damn, you're right
Get that monitor as clean as Webb's primary mirrors.
Those mirrors are absolutely beautiful.
@@blackieblack great joke
And I thought it was tedious getting air bubbles out of a patterned window cover. 🤦🖖 This is so exciting. Can't wait until March of '21
lmao 'march of 21' aged badly didnt it
@@spacekitt.n sad horn noise
This is the hardest window cleaning job i've ever seen
Every aspect of this project seems so extreme and precise to insane degrees of accuracy. It feels like it shouldn't even be possible, but here we are in 2022 and JWST has launched, deployed and on its way to L2 :). You guys are beyond incredible.
Ah, the discoveries it will make makes me overwhelmed and excited but at the same time gives chills down my spine🤯😨
5:08 "Mirror mirror on the wall - Who has the cutest fur of them all?"
Can you just imagine the A-roll footage??😍😍
Nothing but respect for the dedicated scientists that worked on these mirrors. Using 30 towels to clean the surface of one mirror must be super nerve wracking.
All this delicacy and it still has to go through one hell of a ride to orbit!
This CZcams channel was created ten years ago😳 and the telescope is yet to launch. Amazing
good news!
When do they start making the chocolate?
🤣 underrated comment right here
Read this comment right after starting the video and didn't get the joke. Then I saw it..
Willy wonka
HAHA CUZ THEY LOOK LIKE UMPA LOOMPAS
@@gabeross9745 No its cuz the gold foil on the mirror looks like a chocolate wrapper.
Even a mirror of that size on earth in a telescope would be INSANE. Can’t imagine the images this telescope is gonna take.
The telescope has 18 of this panels to create the equivalent approximately of one fucking big telescope :)
@@0xf7c8 yes, but it gone by in the space free of the distortion and filter of the atmosfer, that mean much more ligth in the mirror than a similar telescope in Earth, also this one can "see" infrared ligth , so its a unique instrument
@@noway8233 I knew all of this but thanks
Jesus just the care and precision required to handle this device to look upon the heavens is astonishing!can’t wait to see the pictures
-doing footage on the most high tech mirror
-uploads in 720p.
scientists are like that more often than not.
it is incredible and amazing to make that mirror with precision and electronic accuracy
This is how i clean my mirrors every week
Anyone else nervous just watching them?
Yes, I cought myself holding my breath a few times.
Me on the job
Screw everthing
Glass crack
Pretend to be okay
All coworker just little disapointmen
I go to house
Lock door
Drink heavily
Burn house
While i on it
4:58 The final boss reveal.
First time seeing this. My heart sank when the mirror started going upside down.
The mirror looks so clear I feel like I can walk straight into it.
What a piece of work
The pucker factor must be tremendous in a job like these dudes.
CZcams recomended me this video just a week before its launch, Amazing to see how far it has come in just over 2 years.
The tiny tardigrade which still was on the mirror:- 👋🏻 *YOU CAN'T SEE ME!*
i just love the fact that this stuff is done by hand
That has to be the biggest vacuum sputter chamber I've ever seen, ik it might not be exactly that but I've seen similar coating processes on the small scale and it's insane to see such a large object get coated so perfectly
Thanks for telling me the name of such a chamber, I just went on a google spree and found out what sputters were, haven't heard about it before. Vacuum sputters with the help of a Magnetron was definitely something new for me and really cool to read about!
@@TheFaarf yeah I've been researching using this technique to make inconel coatings, hard part is getting the inconel hot enough to dipose onto your substraight
I'd think company's like TSMC would have larger ones just for pure production numbers
Do you think this was sputtering or evaporation? Sputtering would give a denser film but also gold has a nasty preference for island growth that I think you might avoid with evaporation.
@@tykjpelk yeah it's probably atomic layer deposition using heat, I'm trying to find out if the same can be done with inconel to coat high performance engine components
Such precious work… amazing.
"Where's your white bunny suit?"
"It's in the laundry. This was all I had."
"This mirror's ruined, you know that, right?"
I think you get a few more than 7 years bad luck if you drop that one...
Stanley Dodds...... Ha.
Fired possibly used as fuel for launch lol
Stanley Dodds
7 years in the state penitentiary...
It's so nice to know that all of the brilliance and care, the ceaseless concentration on building this thing... Paid the eff off. It works!!!
Absolutely love this kind of footage. ~I need more
I've never seen a process so meticulously and carefully controlled.
This is what perfection called.
The floor in this room is shinier than anything you'll find at my house.
That fact that that just one of its mirrors, gives you a sense of how big this telescope is , I can’t wait to here what data James Webb Telescope gets
leaving a spec of dust on there would be much worse than the dust under your display protection xD can't wait for those images!
This guys are professional Handy Display Cleaner
Damn. All of this effort and years of perfecting even the simplest tasks depending on a few minutes rocket flight that can go really wrong.
Good thing the chance of a launch failure is really low these days for NASA.
It dit not :)
0:39 - "I have 2 PhD degrees, 35 years of searching and I end up cleaning a mirror?"
I cant wait till the first images roll in
This basically is what Area 51 would look like on the inside
The cleanest mirrors in the history of mirrors.
The precision of that mirror is remarkable.
Just one question about the otherwise first-class 'clean-room' hygiene precautions: why are people's eyebrows and eyelashes not covered? Anyone with a DSLR will know how annoying it is to see a bit of broken-off eyelash hair appear in the viewfinder. It happens...
Humans shed 'stuff' all the time, so I thought these peeps would be wearing (at least) swimming goggles or clear shields over their faces.
(Disclosure: I used to make very amateur-level telescope optics for myself and my friends - mirrors up to 18" and objectives up to 6" - and always had a hard time keeping things clean.)
People scrub themselves for 15 minutes before putting on the suits and masks. In addition, the room is pressurized and the air is filtered. They need to be able to see the mirror surface clearly. I think anything over their eyes would interfere with that. I don't know what class this cleanroom is, but in some Class 1 cleanrooms, all the air in the room can be exchanged in less than 10 seconds. This room is probably too big for that, but my guess is that there is enough controlled airflow to prevent anything from landing on the mirror's surface while it is in the room. I think that's what the majority of the background noise is.
@@TyrannosaurusSex in L2 there is less space dust, the sunshield will also help reduce it and as a matter of fact, dust does not reduce a telescopes effectiveness significantly with such a large aperture, these mirrors are BIG. It would take time well past the mission life to cloudy the mirrors so much to where its useless. Again even if one of the mirrors is crackded for example, it wouldent make the mission useless, just degrade the aperture. Still a massive improvmenet over hubble for atleast a few years.
Using goggles is more of a hinderance than not, so its not part of protocol. From someone who works in a clean room with flight hardware.
This is handling. After all things are done, they are meticulously cleaned a final time anyways.
0:00 cleaning the most expensive mirrors in the world
And that's just 1 of the mirrors. There's still over a dozen more just like it!
I should hire them to clean my laptop screen
It's only half methanol / aceton and clean room wipes but it couldn't work on your labtop, it could damage it, due to plastic protection lol
Why was I holding *MY* breath while the scientist was wiping every speck of dust from it? 😳🥵
NASA Engineer Parent: This is how we clean things at work.
Child: I still don't want to clean my room.
At a party:
Person: What do you do?
Me: I clean mirrors at NASA.
I wonder if the LUVOIR telescope will get the green light? Should be Webb's successor. Probably can only fit on Starship though.
This is truly amazing. I wonder what kinds of qualifications these guys have?
It has to be a pretty rarefied level of qualifications, this is the bleeding edge of everything scientific.
Steady hand and no sneezes.
If you suffer from dandruff you are immediatelly disqualified!
Mostly normal engineers and technicians. You do training for handling, esd, torquing, etc but its not like you need to be an airforce pilot. Just gotta be careful, all the time, all day
Intelligent engineers and precise technicians.
OMG there is a finger print on the mirror JWST is ruined…wait, that’s on my screen. Never mind…
At first i tought it was being coated by hand and i was like WTF.
Cleaning mirrors is something I could really see myself doing.
technical correct
this shld be the cleanliest room on earth!
How surreal is it to those people that worked on each mirror, realizing that they were the only beings that mirror will see along with whatever it sees in space.
I cannot wait for the first cool image.
Precise cleanest work.
Me after a spec of dust were visible on my lens
That mirrors shine is brighter than my future!
Awesome! FEED ME MOOOORE!
Using ultraviolet light to check the mirrors on an infrared telescope. I LOVE the future.
I was holding the camera 😂
cannot wait to see the images that JWST can produce
The way the guy was wiping the mirror in the beginning looked like the success or failure of this multibillion-dollar mission depends how well he wipes it.
These guys can clean my glasses anytime:)
Woooo look at that sexy impossibly thin gold coating!
Me: "And when you're done cleaning the bathroom mirror, you can continue cleaning your room."
My son:
10 billion dollars but "mark" has to do this by hand. I love humanity loooool
When the first images coming in from this big telescope it's going to be a great day for all astronomers
Sometimes I feel proud of being a member of the homo sapiens species.
That was therapeutic.
this reminds me i need to windex my car windows
i wish there was narration to whats happening, this is absolutely fascinating
this is gold, more plz
Professionals at work!!
I find it a bit strange they are cleaning the mirrors by hand. :) There's a lot of stuff flying around in space. What happens if one of these 18 mirror segments get hit by some smaller object? Can they still operate and deliver?
Well, "lot of stuff" is a relative term in an area 1,500,000 km from earth. It's always possible that a micrometorite could hit a mirror, and create a known bad spot that could then be partially be compensated for by moving the telescope slightly during the observation of a distant object.
My thought exactly, I’m sure there must be more precise automated process for cleaning, but perhaps machinery becomes too complex and / or manual is ”good enough”
Sometimes manual is better than an automated process. The beginning of the video shows the technician removing dust and other airborne garbage from the surface prior to coating. The footage in UV light is them looking for any missed specks. The mirror surfaces are delicate but not as fragile as a dandelion.
Well, something tells me that they knew exactly what they should and should not do.
@@ilcomendante Automating it would be much more dangerous. Having a cleaning "robot" or arm, or clean wipe lathe or something inside the Clean Room would be a hassle. Worst case scenario with a machine is that it crashes into the mirror like in a CNC. Worst case for a person wiping it is that they smudge it or something (just clean it again)
that first footage;
"we are paid by the hour"
😁
do not breath watching this!
Godspeed James Webb!! 🌎🌍🌏
Me: THERES A SPECK ON THE MIRROR!
Also Me: Oh... That's just my screen...
I always wondered what happened to the Oompa Loompas once they closed the chocolate factory! No, in all seriousness, what an amazing feat of engineering. I wish them the greatest of success with the mission.
Full Frame Sensor is better than Micro Four/Thirds
NASA: Hold my beer
Little did these guys know that the mirror they made is already is space
when mum asks to clean the windows but you pout and clean that one window to the most extreme
Thank you for posting this :)
no wonder it took 25 years. 3 years was giving that mirror a squeegee job