What would happen if Webb fell out of its orbital position? 😯
the progress on the JWST PSF is super exciting! But I am puzzled we haven't heard anything about the L2 stationkeeping burns - shouldn't there have been at least one by now?As an expert and authority on space, McDowell's question came at an interesting time. Webb had been in orbit of L2 since late January, but there appeared to be no word on its station-keeping maneuvers.
reveals that the idea of having Webb do station keeping maneuvers every 21 days was scrapped because missing one window for station-keeping maneuvers carried with it the risk of not having another window for far too long — long enough for the James Webb Space Telescope to drift out of position, and lose its primary objective .
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