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Hi All,

On 2021-12-25 15:24:15, I wrote to August Abolins:

Btw: It's now already way past (@48km's) the orbit of geostationairy satelites (which is about 35,7 km above the earths surface).

It's now, a day after launch, almost 240 km from earth. That's not even half way the distance to the moon. And about 16,5% of the distance to it's destination point in space. It will take about 29 days to get there. It will take so long to get there, because there is no propulsion anymore (except for some short burns for course corrections). It's in the balistic fase on it's path to it's destination, and because of the gravitational pull of the earth it's constantly slowing down slightly. It speed now is about 1.7 km/s relative to earth, while during the launch fase it topped at about 10 km/s...

If you're interested you can follow it's journey for yourself on this website:

https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/whereIsWebb.html


Bye, Wilfred.

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Hello Wilfred van Velzen!

** On Sunday 26.12.21 - 13:35, Wilfred van Velzen wrote to All:

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FYI, it hasn't made it to ASTRONOMY on 396/45 yet.

It's now, a day after launch, almost 240 km from earth.
That's not even half way the distance to the moon. And
about 16,5% of the distance to it's destination point in
space. It will take about 29 days [..]

The physics/math/mechanics to make all the happen seems
astonishing.

If you're interested you can follow it's journey..

https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/whereIsWebb.html

That's a nice page. It kinda reminds me of the days watching
modem uploads/downloads. :/

But what do the gaps between day 2-3, 9-10, 11-12, 14-15, 26-29
represent?

At about 1.5-2mi/sec hope there isn't any teeny tiny debri that
can render it useless.
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Hi August,

On 2021-12-26 09:48:00, you wrote to me:

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FYI, it hasn't made it to ASTRONOMY on 396/45 yet.

It was send...

@PATH: 396/45 280/464

And your reply with your pointnumber got here...

Bye, Wilfred.

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Hi All,

On 2021-12-26 13:35:05, I wrote to you:

Btw: It's now already way past (@48km's) the orbit of geostationairy
satelites (which is about 35,7 km above the earths surface).

It's now, a day after launch, almost 240K km from earth.

Now after almost 2 days and 2 hours of travel it's almost 375K km from earth and it has traveled more then 25% of the distance to it's destination in space.

If you're interested you can follow it's journey for yourself on this website:

https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/whereIsWebb.html

Bye, Wilfred.

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Hi Wilfred!

27 Dec 2021 15:16, from Wilfred van Velzen -> All:

Now after almost 2 days and 2 hours of travel it's almost 375K km from earth and it has traveled more then 25% of the distance to it's destination in space.

More like 375 mm (megameter)

CU, Ricsi

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Hi Richard,

On 2021-12-27 19:25:08, you wrote to me:

Now after almost 2 days and 2 hours of travel it's almost 375K km
from earth and it has traveled more then 25% of the distance to it's
destination in space.

More like 375 mm (megameter)

;)

Bye, Wilfred.

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Hi August,

On 2021-12-26 17:06:59, I wrote to you:

But what do the gaps between day 2-3, 9-10, 11-12, 14-15, 26-29
represent?

I don't know, I was wondering about that too. And it doesn't seem to correlate too well to the deployment steps...

I just noticed what they mean. It's not about the gaps. It's about the marked bits in blue that are periods in the deployment, as described just below the line. So we are now in the "Sunshield" deployment fase...

Bye, Wilfred.

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Hi All,

On 2021-12-27 15:16:12, I wrote to you:

Btw: It's now already way past (@48km's) the orbit of
geostationairy
satelites (which is about 35,7 km above the earths surface).

It's now, a day after launch, almost 240K km from earth.

Now after almost 2 days and 2 hours of travel it's almost 375K km from earth and it has traveled more then 25% of the distance to it's destination
in space.

Today it passed the 1.000.000 km mark from earth, after 12 days and some hours of flight. "Only about 440.000 km's of flight remain to it's final destination, but that will take another 17 days.

Sofar all deployments (like putting the heatshield and secondary mirror into place) where succesfull! Only the deployment of the Port and Starboard Primary Mirror Wings remain. These last deployments will start tomorrow.

A good place for additional information is: https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/
Most days there are multiple updates of what is going on with the JWST...

Bye, Wilfred.

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Hi All,

On 2022-01-06 22:05:01, I wrote to you:

Sofar all deployments (like putting the heatshield and secondary
mirror into place) where succesfull! Only the deployment of the Port
and Starboard Primary Mirror Wings remain. These last deployments
will start tomorrow.

A good place for additional information is: https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/ Most days there are multiple updates of what is going on with the JWST...

From this blog:

"Today, at 1:17 p.m. EST, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope completed all of its large-scale deployments with the extension and latching of its starboard primary mirror wing. Now that the telescope is structurally fully deployed - with the secondary mirror tripod and both primary mirror wings in place - the three-month process of aligning all of Webb?s telescope optics into a precise system can now commence."

Another milestone!

Bye, Wilfred.

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