{"id":133263,"date":"2021-12-29T17:23:11","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T01:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/nasa-webbs-precision-launch-correction-maneuvers-will-significantly-extend-10-year-lifetime"},"modified":"2021-12-29T17:23:11","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T01:23:11","slug":"nasa-webbs-precision-launch-correction-maneuvers-will-significantly-extend-10-year-lifetime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/nasa-webbs-precision-launch-correction-maneuvers-will-significantly-extend-10-year-lifetime","title":{"rendered":"NASA: Webb\u2019s precision launch, correction maneuvers will significantly extend 10-year lifetime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-webbs-precision-launch-correction-maneuvers-will-significantly-extend-10-year-lifetime.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The observatory should now have enough propellant to support science operations well past its 10-year science lifetime. The space agency said the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techspot.com\/news\/92746-nasa-james-webb-space-telescope-successfully-launches-space.html\">precision of the Arianespace Ariane 5 launch<\/a> resulted in less propellant being used than anticipated. A smooth mid-course correction maneuver after launch, which added approximately 45 mph to the craft\u2019s speed, also helped conserve fuel.<\/p>\n<p>A second correction burn occurred on December 27, speeding up Webb by 6.3 mph.<\/p>\n<p>NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nasa.gov\/webb\/2021\/12\/29\/nasa-says-webbs-excess-fuel-likely-to-extend-its-lifetime-expectations\/\">said<\/a> that from this point on, all scheduled deployments on Webb will be controlled by humans. This means their deployment, or even their order, could change. Webb at this point is a little over a day into a six-day process to unfold its sunshield.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The observatory should now have enough propellant to support science operations well past its 10-year science lifetime. The space agency said the precision of the Arianespace Ariane 5 launch resulted in less propellant being used than anticipated. A smooth mid-course correction maneuver after launch, which added approximately 45 mph to the craft\u2019s speed, also helped [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}