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Did anybody have alternate places to orbit this? L2 was known to be rocky, I gather, but I'm wondering what the other tradeoffs were. Where would we put the nex
by h2odragon 4y ago
Did anybody have alternate places to orbit this? L2 was known to be rocky, I gather, but I'm wondering what the other tradeoffs were. Where would we put the next 2 or 5 of these if we decided to build some more right quick? (handwaving "this one was expensive and tetchy")
Edit: more info:
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/webb/about/L2.html https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/webb/about/L2.html
https://jwst-docs.stsci.edu/jwst-observatory-characteristics/jwst-orbit https://jwst-docs.stsci.edu/jwst-observatory-characteristics...