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The Roman and Webb telescopes will both orbit the same L2 point, but at a radius of up to half a million miles, so they will never be close.


Roman is making its three-month journey from Earth to Sun-Earth Lagrange Point 2, or L2. Along the way, Roman is undergoing a process called commissioning,

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