Where Is Webb? NASA/Webb - Webb Space Telescope
Webb's orbit around L2 is known as a halo orbit which, rather than a single path, is an orbit that periodically varies through a series of paths around L2. By design, the launch vehicle and …
Deployment Explorer Webb/NASA - Webb Space Telescope
After launching from French Guiana, the observatory will travel to an orbit about one million miles away from Earth and undergo six months of commissioning in space—unfolding its mirrors, …
Webb Launch Rewind - Webb/NASA - Webb Space Telescope
'WhereIsWebb' shows the status of Webb on its journey to L2 orbit. The page constantly updates as Webb travels, deploys, and cools to operating temperature. The most recently completed …
Orbit - Webb/NASA
2024年8月22日 · The James Webb Space Telescope is not in orbit around the Earth, like the Hubble Space Telescope is - it actually orbits the Sun, 1.5 million kilometers (1 million miles) …
After launching from French Guiana, the observatory will travel to an orbit about one million miles away from Earth and undergo six months of commissioning in space—unfolding its mirrors, …
Webbcam - Webb/NASA
The James Webb Space Telescope (sometimes called Webb or JWST) is a large infrared telescope with a 6.5-meter primary mirror. Webb will be the premier observatory of the next …
Where Is Webb? NASA/Webb - Webb Space Telescope
This page tracks Webb on its roughly 1,000,000 mile journey from Earth to entry into its L2 halo orbit as well as showing Webb's most recently completed deployment state.
Mirrors Webb/NASA
James Webb Space Telescope's primary mirror at NASA Goddard. The secondary mirror is the round mirror located at the end of the long booms, which are folded into their launch …
James Webb Space Telescope - NASA Science
2025年1月24日 · Webb launched on Dec. 25th 2021. It does not orbit around the Earth like the Hubble Space Telescope, it orbits the Sun 1.5 million kilometers (1 million miles) away from …
Both the mirror and sunshade won't fit onto the rocket fully open, so both will fold up and open once JWST is in outer space. JWST will reside in an orbit about 1.5 million km (1 million miles) …