$10B James Webb Space Telescope enters its final orbit, 1.5 million kilometers from Earth

Lead image: Artist's rendition of James Webb Space Telescope in space. Credit: Adriana Manrique Gutierrez, NASA Animator NASA's James Webb Space Telescope lifted off on Christmas morning from Arianespace's ELA-3 launch complex at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana. If you want to see the launch, watch a replay of the live stream here. This Monday, nearly a month later, Webb, as NASA often refers to it, reached its final orbit around the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point, or L2, about 1.5 million ...