Jerb322@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 10 months agoDo satellites have different levels for direction they are traveling?message-squaremessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up136arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up135arrow-down1message-squareDo satellites have different levels for direction they are traveling?Jerb322@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 10 months agomessage-square20fedilinkfile-text
Like distance from the Earth. And do some of them “sit” in one place, like always over North America?
minus-squareCinner@lemmy.worldBlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-210 months agoHeard of them (UFOs sub, lots of heavy reading, skimming the physics parts) but never knew what they were. That’s a great understandable explanation, and fascinating, thanks.
minus-squareUpsKaputtlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 months agoThe JWST actually sits at a Lagrange Point (L2) There is a good write up including video and animations to explain what where and why https://webb.nasa.gov/content/about/orbit.html
Heard of them (UFOs sub, lots of heavy reading, skimming the physics parts) but never knew what they were. That’s a great understandable explanation, and fascinating, thanks.
The JWST actually sits at a Lagrange Point (L2)
There is a good write up including video and animations to explain what where and why https://webb.nasa.gov/content/about/orbit.html