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RST

Sun-Earth L2 halo orbit

Files

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Click here to download the run options file.

Description

Like JWST, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (RST) is a NASA large strategic science mission and space telescope.  RST will orbit the Sun-Earth L2 Lagrange point, and therefore the meteoroid environment encountered by RST is very similar to that encountered by JWST.

Graphics

Trajectory in inertial frame

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Trajectory in Sun-centered ecliptic frame

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Meteoroid flux and properties

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Meteoroid directionality in body-fixed frame

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