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Webb is going to the Sun-Earth L2 (about 1.5 million km from Earth), not the Earth-Moon L2 (which is about 61,000 km from the Moon and 445,000 km from the Earth
by bewaretheirs 5y ago
Webb is going to the Sun-Earth L2 (about 1.5 million km from Earth), not the Earth-Moon L2 (which is about 61,000 km from the Moon and 445,000 km from the Earth.
https://webb.nasa.gov/content/about/orbit.html https://webb.nasa.gov/content/about/orbit.html