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James Webb
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RE: James Webb
(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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James Webb - by vulcanlogician - August 2, 2021 at 9:03 pm
RE: James Webb - by Astreja - August 2, 2021 at 11:39 pm
RE: James Webb - by Rev. Rye - August 2, 2021 at 11:53 pm
RE: James Webb - by Fake Messiah - August 3, 2021 at 6:06 am
RE: James Webb - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - August 3, 2021 at 6:26 am
RE: James Webb - by The Valkyrie - August 3, 2021 at 6:50 am
RE: James Webb - by popeyespappy - August 3, 2021 at 7:31 am
RE: James Webb - by zebo-the-fat - August 3, 2021 at 1:08 pm
RE: James Webb - by popeyespappy - August 3, 2021 at 2:11 pm
RE: James Webb - by zebo-the-fat - August 3, 2021 at 3:08 pm
RE: James Webb - by popeyespappy - August 3, 2021 at 3:13 pm
RE: James Webb - by HappySkeptic - August 6, 2021 at 12:55 pm
RE: James Webb - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - August 9, 2021 at 6:38 pm
RE: James Webb - by Fake Messiah - October 3, 2021 at 9:56 pm
RE: James Webb - by DocIllinois - August 6, 2021 at 3:01 pm
RE: James Webb - by HappySkeptic - August 9, 2021 at 1:35 pm
RE: James Webb - by Anomalocaris - August 9, 2021 at 2:03 pm
RE: James Webb - by HappySkeptic - August 9, 2021 at 3:54 pm
RE: James Webb - by vulcanlogician - August 9, 2021 at 3:47 pm
RE: James Webb - by Anomalocaris - August 9, 2021 at 5:23 pm
RE: James Webb - by Peebo-Thuhlu - October 4, 2021 at 3:36 am
RE: James Webb - by Jackalope - October 4, 2021 at 4:48 pm
RE: James Webb - by Fireball - October 4, 2021 at 6:25 pm
RE: James Webb - by Jackalope - October 4, 2021 at 6:50 pm
RE: James Webb - by Fireball - October 4, 2021 at 7:54 pm
RE: James Webb - by vulcanlogician - October 4, 2021 at 10:23 pm
RE: James Webb - by Fireball - October 4, 2021 at 11:04 pm
RE: James Webb - by AFTT47 - January 9, 2022 at 5:56 pm
RE: James Webb - by vulcanlogician - January 13, 2022 at 1:32 am
RE: James Webb - by ignoramus - January 13, 2022 at 2:25 am
RE: James Webb - by Anomalocaris - January 13, 2022 at 2:34 am
RE: James Webb - by vulcanlogician - January 13, 2022 at 2:38 am
RE: James Webb - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - January 13, 2022 at 4:19 am
RE: James Webb - by vulcanlogician - January 23, 2022 at 7:32 pm
RE: James Webb - by Angrboda - January 24, 2022 at 9:02 pm
RE: James Webb - by brewer - January 24, 2022 at 9:15 pm
RE: James Webb - by Fireball - January 24, 2022 at 9:45 pm
RE: James Webb - by brewer - January 24, 2022 at 11:56 pm
RE: James Webb - by Peebo-Thuhlu - January 25, 2022 at 7:48 am
RE: James Webb - by vulcanlogician - January 29, 2022 at 12:04 am
RE: James Webb - by Anomalocaris - January 29, 2022 at 3:31 pm
RE: James Webb - by Jackalope - January 25, 2022 at 2:10 am
RE: James Webb - by zebo-the-fat - January 25, 2022 at 5:29 am
RE: James Webb - by polymath257 - January 29, 2022 at 4:45 pm
RE: James Webb - by vulcanlogician - January 29, 2022 at 4:55 pm
RE: James Webb - by brewer - January 29, 2022 at 7:18 pm
RE: James Webb - by Anomalocaris - January 29, 2022 at 8:17 pm
RE: James Webb - by brewer - January 29, 2022 at 9:11 pm
RE: James Webb - by Anomalocaris - January 29, 2022 at 6:43 pm
RE: James Webb - by Fireball - January 29, 2022 at 7:54 pm
RE: James Webb - by AFTT47 - January 29, 2022 at 11:36 pm
RE: James Webb - by Disagreeable - January 30, 2022 at 9:53 am

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