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> Next up for Webb? Five months of alignment and calibration before we start getting images I thought the L2 insertion burn was the next thing. Has that alread
by irrational 5y ago
> Next up for Webb? Five months of alignment and calibration before we start getting images
I thought the L2 insertion burn was the next thing. Has that already happened?
- Laremere 5y agoIt has not happened yet. See: https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/whereIsWebb.html https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/whereIsWebb.html However, the alignment and calibration starts soon, before the l2 insertion burn. It will just continue for months afterwords, too.
- kurthr 5y agoFrom the Where_Is_Webb site, insertion doesn't happen for another 2 weeks. Like coasting up a hill half the time to L2 has elapsed but 75% of the way there (50% of the way in the first few days!). The next thing looks like aligning the mirror segments. See the status bellow. I think there were already two relatively early correction burns. https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/whereIsWebb.html?units=metric https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/whereIsWebb.html?un...