James Webb Space Telescope
A space observatory with a 6.5-meter primary mirror of 18 gold-coated beryllium segments, operating near the Sun-Earth L2 point. Figures are NASA's. A different sunshield size published elsewhere is not mixed in.
- What
- James Webb Space Telescope
- Where
- Sun-Earth L2, about 1.5 million km (NASA fact sheet)
- When
- Dec 25, 2021
- Who
- NASA
- Status
- U.S. government work (public domain). Credit: NASA. Linked, not rehosted.
Sources
Record details
Public NASA fact sheet. The telescope is an international mission; the numbers on this card are the ones NASA prints.
Source: NASA.