James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Space Telescope — spacecraft, explore its interactive 3D model in Cosmoscope.

Explore James Webb Space Telescope in a 3D Solar System. Follow its published mission trajectory and inspect its distance and spacecraft facts.

A 6.5-metre golden eye parked beyond the Moon at the L2 point, watching the first galaxies ignite. It orbits the Sun in lockstep with Earth, 1.5 million km behind us in the night.

Launched
25 Dec 2021
Status
Active — observing from Sun–Earth L2

Explore James Webb Space Telescope in 3D

Explore James Webb Space Telescope along its published mission trajectory in the 3D Solar System. The model uses the available ephemeris interval; historical missions are not active spacecraft and extrapolations beyond an ephemeris interval are approximate.

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