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To: Red Badger

The launch date for the James Web space telescope is still on for Oct 21, 2021.

Bout time

It will be positioned 1 million miles away from earth at L2, Lagrange point #2, in a stable orbit.

Its infrared camera should give us more detail at the outer edges of our solar system, if it all works, pretty exciting stuff.


11 posted on 12/11/2020 7:04:20 AM PST by baclava
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To: baclava
It will be positioned 1 million miles away from earth at L2, Lagrange point #2, in a stable orbit.

Servicing missions to L2 will be tough for servicing missions. I hope they've already checked JW for spherical aberrations.

15 posted on 12/11/2020 8:49:22 AM PST by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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