from starling to kazakhstan okay that was really not the best transition but i couldn't come up with a better one here at seven in the morning please have a bit of mercy on me so apparently there is unrest in kazakhstan which started because of a surge in fuel prices those people certainly haven't seen fuel prices in germany yet i can tell you anyhow unrest is spreading through kazakhstan and now there is some speculation that this could affect operations of rocket launches from russia's spaceport at baikonur in the south west of the country kazakhstan was once part of the soviet union which was when the baikonur cosmodrome was built but since the collapse of the ussr russia has been actually paying kazakhstan to be allowed to keep using the cosmodrome currently the unrest is still more focused to the north of the country but if it should spread further and if there would be a coup and an anti-russian president would be put in power things could change for the worst for russia but worry not says dimitry robertson and we know that if dimitry robertson the chief of the russian space agency roscosmos says something then you can be absolutely sure that it is true anyhow this is certainly a situation to keep an eye on if the russian cosmodrome would be affected and worst case russia loses access to low earth orbit then the consequences for them would be quite brutal that would certainly not be good for the russian propaganda machine that wants to convince us how extremely powerful their space capabilities are when in fact the russian space agency has only NUMBER_TOKEN percent of the annual funding of nasa and when in fact many facilities at the cosmodrome have fallen into this repair and when in fact actually the russian space program is just feeding off from past glory from the soviet era they even used the same rockets from decades ago and basically all of the new developments will take many years to come to life if at all due to budget constraints some certainly crazy situations unfolding in the east and we will certainly keep an eye on these developments but there are much nicer developments in space namely with the james webb space telescope this magnificent piece of hardware has now fully deployed its secondary mirror this is the smaller mirror where light will be reflected from the primary mirror towards the complex array of super high sensitivity optical sensors not long afterwards the primary mirror will be deployed and then we must be really patient and wait until the jwst has cooled down to below NUMBER_TOKEN kelvin of temperature and then in half a year we will hopefully get the first nice pictures from far away deep space objects but i personally am most excited about the exoplanet research capabilities with this giant space telescope i think we will find some really pretty interesting signatures from far away exoplanets that will be a strong indicator for the presence of life maybe even technological life now that would be really quite something it must also be mentioned that asa's aryan NUMBER_TOKEN rocket did really an outstanding job in getting the james webb space telescope on a perfect trajectory towards its destination at the earth's sun lagrange point lNUMBER_TOKEN due to the absolutely picture-perfect launch the space telescope will not need to perform many course corrections thus it will have a much longer lifetime than initially planned namely at least
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