James Webb is fully deployed

Re:James Webb is fully deployed by frosted-flakes on Saturday January 08, 2022 @06:28PM (#29857768)

L2 is 1.5 million km away. For perspective, the moon is 384 000 km away. That's nearly 4x the distance. It took Apollo astronauts 3 days to reach the moon.

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Re:James Webb is fully deployed by behnamoh on Saturday January 08, 2022 @08:12PM (#29858701)

So it will take almost 2 weeks to get to JSWT, and two weeks to come back.

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Re:James Webb is fully deployed by mikepurvis on Saturday January 08, 2022 @09:49PM (#29859459)

Presumably such a mission would be unmanned and therefore a one-way trip.

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