The James Webb telescope has successfully corrected its course to the second Lagrange point
The most expensive telescope James Webb ("James Webb"), launched into space the day before, successfully made the first course correction. This was reported by NASA.
The procedure took 65 minutes. This was the second action of the device in extraterrestrial space. Before the correction, Webb straightened the solar panels.
In total, the telescope worth ten billion dollars will have to adjust the flight three times before it is put into a given orbit. It is expected that it will arrive at the second Lagrange point in the Sun-Earth system (about 1.6 million kilometers from the planet) in about four weeks. The observatory is scheduled to start operating in May 2022.
In the future, James Webb should replace the Hubble orbital telescope, launched by the United States in April 1990. The diameter of the collecting surface of the main mirror of the second is 2.4 meters, whereas in the first this parameter reaches 6.5 meters. This makes it possible to conduct observations with greater accuracy not only in the optical, but also in the near and middle infrared ranges. The main tasks of James Webb are the study of the early Universe, galaxies and supermassive black holes, as well as a detailed study of exoplanets.
