Subj : Re: The James Webb Space Telescope
To   : All
From : Wilfred van Velzen
Date : Mon Dec 27 2021 15:16:12

* Originally in ASTRONOMY
* Crossposted in ASTRONET
* Crossposted in CHAT

Hi All,

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

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

 WvV> 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.

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

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


Bye, Wilfred.

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