spaceexp: Comparing Webb and HubbleHubble orbits Earth at an altitude of approximately 570 km. It wa

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Comparing Webb and Hubble

Hubble orbits Earth at an altitude of approximately 570 km. It was accessible by the Space Shuttle and had 5 servicing missions.

Webb will orbit at the second Lagrange point (L2), roughly 1.5 million km from Earth with no servicing missions possible