Subj : Re: The James Webb Space Telescope
To   : All
From : Wilfred van Velzen
Date : Thu Jan 06 2022 22:05:01

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

Hi All,

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

 WvV>>> Btw: It's now already way past (@48km's) the orbit of
 WvV>>> 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.

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