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The telescope launched into space has moved 1.5 million kilometers from Earth

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The James Webb Telescope has completed course correction and reached the second Lagrange point

The most expensive telescope of James Webb (James Webb) successfully made the final course correction a month after launching into space. This is reported by NASA.

It is specified that for this the telescope turned on its engines for 297 seconds. As a result, he reached the second Lagrange point in the Sun-Earth system, which is located 1.5 million kilometers from Earth. "Now we are one step closer to unlocking the secrets of the universe," said Bill Nelson, administrator of the US Space Agency.

Over the next three months, space agency specialists will set up the observatory and align the mirrors.

The James Webb Telescope was launched on December 25, 2021. The observatory is scheduled to start operating in May 2022. In the future, it should replace the Hubble orbital telescope, launched by the United States in April 1990. However, unlike its predecessor, the James Webb will be unattended (shuttles flew to Hubble four times) and must work for at least ten years.

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