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Good question! @NASAWebb will be far away because it has to operate at an extremely cold temperature. It also has to be away from the sunlight and heat reflecting off Earth and the Moon. Here's more info: https://www.jwst.nasa.gov/content/about/orbit.html …
Our orbit around the 2nd Lagrange point allows us to use our sunshield to block the light of the Earth/Sun/Moon at all times, as we orbit the Sun in line with the Earth. This keeps our telescope extremely cold so we can see faint heat signals from space. https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/about/orbit.html …pic.twitter.com/o4ELnPMb8d
That’s amazing! Congratulations on all the hard work you guys been doing for decades. Would JWT need servicing at any point? If so then would you guys bring it closer or will our astronauts go the L1?
I think he said it best when he said:pic.twitter.com/gzLWQTbotf
50 university Astrophysics PhD candidates and a late night pizza party with all the Mountain Dew they can consume. Oh, and a big rocket with a decent guidance system.
Yeah, but why don't you DEPLOY in HEO/LEO and THEN go to L-2? It's WAY late in the mission to do this now, but why wasn't this ever considered? If that was the case, we'd have had some chance of servicing in case of some malfunction?
The reason it's delayed so much is to trim out any possibility of any malfunction... Once it is at L2, it is hard to repair.
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Sunshield folding complete!
Engineers finished carefully packing the tennis-court-sized structure that will protect our 
