Connecting to JPL…
EARTH & OBSERVATORIESEarth
MISSION CLOCK
DISTANCE FROM EARTH
SPEED · REL. EARTH
ESTIMATED ARRIVAL AT L2~DEC 8 2026NASA · ~100-day cruise ↗
SPACE TELESCOPE SCIENCE INSTITUTE ↗FROM BALTIMORE TO THE OBSERVATORIES
Real imagery. A cinematic journey.
The opening uses the owner’s photographs of STScI and its Roman banner. USGS and Esri aerial mosaics and NASA Earth imagery form the ascent; NASA spacecraft composites form the moving flybys. This is a cinematic scale journey, not a recorded or physically timed rocket flight. The final locators use dated JPL positions.
Space Telescope Science Institute ↗