(October 4, 2021 at 4:48 pm)Jackalope Wrote:(October 4, 2021 at 3:36 am)Peebo-Thuhlu Wrote: At work.
I hope it works and achieves a great many things.
My thoughts are; That once it does finally stop working think of the monument (However 'Small') to human engineering we've placed amongst the heavens for any future sophonts to discover.
Since it's my understanding that once 'In'/'At' the Lagrange point it's not going anywhere for a looooooong time.
Cheers.
If it were going to be placed at L4 or L5, perhaps, bit it's going to be at L2 which will require periodic course corrections every ~23 days. I would expect it to eventually be unable to do so.
"Because the helium will gradually be used up, JWST has a finite and short mission lifetime (5.5 to 10 years).” ... it is limited by the supply of hydrazine fuel needed to maintain the spacecraft's orbit."- AmericanScientist.com
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