Apparently America still has a couple of Rocket Scientists.
For how many more years?
Good. Once it levels up, it’ll be much harder to defeat.
It will still be several months before we get any pictures.
That’s good for the Jamaican Waterslide Team.
Lordy I hope we got it right
Thanks for the update! Can’t wait to see the first images, I know it’s gonna be a while yet- like another five months or so…
The IR pictures should be interesting to view
I wonder if they will get a clear photo of Uranus? (Sorry. Even at age 71, I’m 12 at heart)
Webb has slowed down to a bit over 600 mph, really slow for space travel stuff.
Looks like a very precise job getting it there without skidding past and burning out the brakes. /s
For those who don’t get it: L2 is a LaGrange point, a point in space where an object will keep a stable orbit at a constant relationship to a distant object at a different point in that orbit.
For instance, there is a point where an object would stay at exactly the opposite side of the Sun from the Earth. (This is why there was conjecture that there could be a mysterious object on the opposite side of the Sun and we’d never know it... until the era of interplanetary spaceships.) There are also points only 60 degrees away from the Earth. And there are points, incredibly, in front of the Earth and behind it, where an object will simply stay, without revolving around the Earth! L2 is one of those.
speed relatve to what? Because it’s traveling arpund the sun a lot faster. It’s travelling around the galactic center even faster and so on...
Speed down to 618 mph as I write this.
How close to 0 mph will the cruising speed go before it goes into its halo orbit around the invisible L2 point?
In miles, how large will its L2 orbit be?
In mph, what will its orbital speed be around L2?
Oh my! They’re using McDLT technology to keep the cold side cold and the hot side hot!
Some say our universe is a certain age because that is what we can ‘see.’ Who is to say what is beyond what we can ‘see’ today?
Tomorrow, or in 200 years, we may see further, more, etc.
The Earth may be about 4, 5 billion years old. The universe we ‘know’, we can ‘see’ may be 13-15 billion years old. Some of the stuff we know and see is backed up by rock-solid, real science. Some is conjecture and extrapolation from things we know. Then, we have speculation, maybe, perhaps, etc. Some of the maybe items might someday be more provable; others not. God gave us these amazing minds and brains, to use, to help others, and to explore this magnificent universe.