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At roughly 2:00 PM EST on Monday, the Webb telescope made a nearly five-minute thruster burn , which brought it into its final postlaunch course. This marked the spacecraft's insertion into its final orbit around the second Lagrange point between the sun and the Earth, where it can orbit without any additional thrusters, held in place by the forces of gravity, nearly 1 million miles away from us. This last mid-course burn only increased the spacecraft's speed by roughly 3.
"Webb, welcome home!" said Bill Nelson, NASA's Administrator on the event, in the blog post."Congratulations to the team for all of their hard work ensuring Webb's safe arrival at L2 today. We're one step closer to uncovering the mysteries of the universe. And I can't wait to see Webb's first new views of the universe this summer!" Webb launched on Christmas Day, and its journey was one of the greatest adventures any spacecraft has ever taken.
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