Roughly speaking, it’s [now] around 20 years of propellant.
Much of the thanks for this news go to Ariane 5.
Prior to launch, the telescope was fueled with 240 liters of hydrazine fuel and dinitrogen tetroxide oxidizer.
Photo: NASA GSFC/CIL/Adriana Manrique Gutierrez
Photo: NASA/Bill Ingalls
The remaining fuel would then be used for its orbits around L2.
Certainly, this attention to detail has now paid off.
This is the second piece of good news about JWST.
Photo: NASA/Bill Ingalls
NASA is also celebrating the successful deployment of the telescope’s 21-foot, gold-coated astronomical mirror.
This is all in preparation for the summer months when JWST will get to work.
By all accounts, the public will be able to see the first images from Webb shortly thereafter.
