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Hi All,

Today, at 2 p.m. EST, Webb fired its onboard thrusters for nearly five minutes (297 seconds) to complete the final postlaunch course correction to Webb's trajectory. This mid-course correction burn inserted Webb toward its final orbit around the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point, or L2, nearly 1 million miles away from the Earth.

The final mid-course burn added only about 3.6 miles per hour (1.6 meters per second) - a mere walking pace - to Webb's speed, which was all that was needed to send it to its preferred "halo" orbit around the L2 point.

Read more here:

https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2022/01/24/orbital-insertion-burn-a-success-webb-arrives-at-l2/
https://tinyurl.com/djpzb6xu

Bye, Wilfred.

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Hello Wilfred van Velzen!

** On Tuesday 25.01.22 - 18:54, Wilfred van Velzen wrote to All:

The final mid-course burn added only about 3.6 miles per
hour (1.6 meters per second) - a mere walking pace - to
Webb's speed, which was all that was needed to send it to
its preferred "halo" orbit around the L2 point.

I hear that it will be June before the first images will be
taken and available.


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Hi August,

On 2022-01-26 04:13:00, you wrote to me:

The final mid-course burn added only about 3.6 miles per
hour (1.6 meters per second) - a mere walking pace - to
Webb's speed, which was all that was needed to send it to
its preferred "halo" orbit around the L2 point.

I hear that it will be June before the first images will be
taken and available.

Yes it will take about half a year for first the cooling down, and afterwards the perfect allignment of all the mirrors... We're talking about nanometer precision here...

Bye, Wilfred.

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