{"id":712416,"date":"2021-12-29T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=712416"},"modified":"2021-12-29T13:30:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T17:30:00","slug":"precise-ariane-5-launch-likely-to-extend-webbs-expected-lifetime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=712416","title":{"rendered":"Precise Ariane 5 launch likely to extend Webb&#039;s expected lifetime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Webb_liftoff_on_Ariane_5_card_full-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Science_Exploration\/Space_Science\/Webb\/Webb_liftoff_on_Ariane_5_to_unlock_secrets_of_the_Universe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">successful launch<\/a> of the NASA\/ESA\/CSA James Webb Space Telescope on 25 December, and completion of two <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nasa.gov\/webb\/2021\/12\/27\/more-than-you-wanted-to-know-about-webbs-mid-course-corrections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">mid-course correction manoeuvres<\/a>, the Webb team has analysed its initial trajectory and determined the observatory should have enough propellant to allow support of science operations in orbit for significantly more than a 10-year lifetime (the minimum baseline for the mission is five years).<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Science_Exploration\/Space_Science\/Webb\/Precise_Ariane_5_launch_likely_to_extend_Webb_s_expected_lifetime\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Precise Ariane 5 launch likely to extend Webb&#8217;s expected lifetime<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a successful launch of the NASA\/ESA\/CSA James Webb Space Telescope on 25 December, and completion of two mid-course correction manoeuvres, the Webb team has analysed its initial trajectory and&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":712417,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-712416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ESA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=712416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/712417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=712416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=712416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=712416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}