Posted on Jan 24, 2022
NASA LIVE: James Webb Space Telescope live update NEW! Countdown to L2 Insertion Burn #WEBB #NASA...
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Good Monday morning my Brothers and Sisters from a Sunny start to the week ahead!
It was a brisk 41° with a strong breeze, when I hopped out of the bed this morning, which made it feel much colder! The humidity was 93% at the time and that temperature feels much different than a 30° temperature with 20% humidity and just a slight breeze up in the greater Boston area!
And what a day it is for the James Webb Space Telescope! It has clocked in at a measly 1690 miles to go to reach the L2 Lagrange Point and is now some 905,834 miles from Earth and counting...
Notes: A series of activities to plan and execute MCC2 - the insertion burn for the JWST's L2 Orbit... MCC2 corrects any residual trajectory errors and adjusts the final L2 Orbit... As an added note, There are three mid-course correction (MCC) maneuvers: MCC-1a, MCC-1b. MCC-2. It is this last and final burn, which inserts the JWST into its L2 "halo" orbit. This burn is expected to occur at 2PM Eastern / 7PM UTC...
Further, there are some outstanding video segments in the Lower Right corner of the live broadcast and I highly recommend watching the sequence, but make sure you watch FULL SCREEN ON THE LARGEST SCREEN YOU HAVE AVAILABILE... You won't see the detail on a small screen...and it is magnificent!!!
More later in the day... Enjoy!
Kerry
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It was a brisk 41° with a strong breeze, when I hopped out of the bed this morning, which made it feel much colder! The humidity was 93% at the time and that temperature feels much different than a 30° temperature with 20% humidity and just a slight breeze up in the greater Boston area!
And what a day it is for the James Webb Space Telescope! It has clocked in at a measly 1690 miles to go to reach the L2 Lagrange Point and is now some 905,834 miles from Earth and counting...
Notes: A series of activities to plan and execute MCC2 - the insertion burn for the JWST's L2 Orbit... MCC2 corrects any residual trajectory errors and adjusts the final L2 Orbit... As an added note, There are three mid-course correction (MCC) maneuvers: MCC-1a, MCC-1b. MCC-2. It is this last and final burn, which inserts the JWST into its L2 "halo" orbit. This burn is expected to occur at 2PM Eastern / 7PM UTC...
Further, there are some outstanding video segments in the Lower Right corner of the live broadcast and I highly recommend watching the sequence, but make sure you watch FULL SCREEN ON THE LARGEST SCREEN YOU HAVE AVAILABILE... You won't see the detail on a small screen...and it is magnificent!!!
More later in the day... Enjoy!
Kerry
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Great update, those burns can be worrisome so keeping my fingers crossed. We slept in today so 47 with no breeze when we got up.
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It's amazing Jack... the planning, the building, the launch, the en route, the fine corrections and the prep for orbit entry. What we may learn is mind-boggling.
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