NASA’s new powerful space telescope gets hit by larger than expected micrometeoroid

The Verge

By Loren Grush@lorengrush

Jun 8, 2022, 5:04pm EDT

NASA’s new powerful space observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope, got pelted by a larger than expected micrometeoroid at the end of May, causing some detectable damage to one of the spacecraft’s 18 primary mirror segments. The impact means that the mission team will have to correct for the distortion created by the strike, but NASA says that the telescope is “still performing at a level that exceeds all mission requirements.”

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