• Webb's Journey to L2 Is Nearly Complete

    From Wilfred van Velzen@2:280/464 to All on Saturday, January 22, 2022 12:12:22
    * Originally in ASTRONOMY
    * Crossposted in ASTRONET

    Hi All,

    "On Monday, Jan. 24, engineers plan to instruct NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to complete a final correction burn that will place it into its desired orbit, nearly 1 million miles away from the Earth at what is called the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point, or "L2" for short."

    Read the complete article here:

    https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2022/01/21/webbs-journey-to-l2-is-nearly-complete/

    Bye, Wilfred.

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