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Our beautiful, delicate satellite took a hit from a tiny rock.
June 12, 2022By Steven Masso
HARLINGEN, Texas - The world’s most powerful telescope (click here) sustained an impact to one of its primary mirrors after being struck by a micrometeoroid.
NASA announced that the James Webb Space Telescope sustained a micrometeoroid impact at some point between May 23 and May 25.
Initial assessments showed a “marginally detectable effect in the data” as a result of the impact. Despite that, NASA is confident in the telescopes’ abilities....
...NASA closed their statement by saying the impact did not cause any changes to Webb’s operations schedule.
The first full-color images and data from the telescope is scheduled to be released on July, 12, 2022.
