Mission Heritage · canon plane
James Webb Space Telescope
NASA · ESA · CSA · 2021 — · operational
The infrared flagship at Sun–Earth L2.
The record
| Orbit | halo about Sun–Earth L2 (~1.5M km) | NASA JWST mission pages |
| Mirror | 6.5 m segmented, cryogenic | NASA JWST mission pages |
| Deployment | 344 single-point releases — all succeeded | NASA JWST commissioning |
Verification — our engine vs the published record
Beyond the quick-look — honestly gated
A three-body halo orbit — undefined in a two-body model; the fidelity ladder (CR3BP/ephemeris) owns it.
Published record: NASA JWST mission pages
Curation review
Canon entries are admitted and amended through a Go/No-Go — the same review primitive as missions and CAPCOM sources.
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