WFIRST: The Road to L2. The view from above
This visualization views the WFIRST trajectory to Sun-Earth Lagrange Two point from above the ecliptic plane.
Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) is a next-generation space telescope. It will observe the infrared universe from a halo orbit located at the Sun-Earth Lagrange Point two, located beyond the orbit of the Moon. This visualization views the trajectory from above the ecliptic plane.
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio
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Visualizer
- Tom Bridgman (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
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Technical support
- Laurence Schuler (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
- Ian Jones (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
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Producer
- Scott Wiessinger (USRA)
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Scientist
- Neil Gehrels (NASA/GSFC)
Missions
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DE421 (JPL DE421)
ID: 752Planetary ephemerides
This dataset can be found at: http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/?ephemerides#planets
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Release date
This page was originally published on Tuesday, September 20, 2016.
This page was last updated on Sunday, January 5, 2025 at 11:03 PM EST.