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Spacecraft · Sun-Earth L2, about 1.5 million km (NASA fact sheet)

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James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Space Telescope

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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
2021-12-25
Source
NASA
Credit
NASA
License
U.S. government work (public domain). Credit: NASA. Linked, not rehosted.
Details
NASA fact sheet. Launched 25 December 2021 on an Ariane 5 ECA.

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Sources and credit

  1. NASA
  2. Research library: the full record

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