On: James Webb is fully deployed

[loonster]

The Hubble telescope wasn't unique. It was simply the first one that was pointed away from earth.

For the JWST, is there even room for a 2nd telescope at L2?

[ajuc → loonster]

There's room for a lot of them, it will be in orbit around L2, not exactly in L2.

[baq → loonster]

Space is huge.

[varajelle → baq]

But L2 is just one point

[CamperBob2 → varajelle]

That's an abstraction. In reality, what we call "L2" is an orbit around the L2 point. No shortage of room.

[loonster → CamperBob2]

I was thinking since the point is so unstable, the orbit must be extremely small...

Boy was I wrong. The orbit is about the same size as the moon makes around the earth. [0] Its HUGE. We would run out of material to make satellites before we ever ran out of room.

[0] https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/about/orbit.html