The James Webb Space Telescope has been traveling through space since its launch on December 25, 2021, and will soon face the next crucial step in its mission, performing an orbital burn to insert ...
Visualization of the Sun-Earth Lagrange points. Orbital mechanics is a fun subject, as it involves a lot of seemingly empty space that’s nevertheless full of very real forces, all of which must be ...
On Monday, Jan. 24, engineers plan to instruct NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to complete a final correction burn that will place it into its desired orbit, nearly 1 million miles away from the ...
Outer space is massive, and throughout the universe, everything is in motion. The Earth orbits around the Sun, the Moon orbits around the Earth, the Sun orbits around the center of the Milky Way, and ...
About 250 years ago, mathematicians wrote the first equations describing where the James Webb Space Telescope, launched on Christmas Day 2021, now resides. Webb will stay put for around 20 years at ...