James Webb Space Telescope hit by tiny meteoroid
Nasa says the incident is not expected to limit the mission’s overall performance. …
“We always knew that Webb would have to weather the space environment, which includes harsh ultraviolet light and charged particles from the Sun, cosmic rays from exotic sources in the galaxy, and occasional strikes by micrometeoroids within our Solar System,” said Paul Geithner, technical deputy project manager at Nasa’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
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