Did the James Webb Space Telescope FAIL?
James Webb Space Telescope recently survived a micrometeoroid attack. Latest JWST update, the James Webb telescope still continues to perform well, and the images are planned to be released on 12th July.
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The last place we'd want to put the James Webb Space Telescope is, ofcourse, in space. If one owned a $10 billion car, one wouldn’t leave it out in a hail storm, and while there’s no hail in space, there are plenty of micrometeoroids, which are high speed debris no bigger than a dust grain but moving so fast they can pack a true destructive strike. Every day, millions of such fragments rain down on Earth, but they burn up in the atmosphere long before they reach the ground.
The Webb, which is parked in a spot in space 1.6 million kms from Earth, has no such protection. And as NASA and others have reported in the past week that its mirror has already been tinkled five times by tiny space objects, the most recent of which has done real, but correctable, damage.
What makes the recent micrometeoroid hit especially troubling is that, while NASA scientists simulated such collisions on the ground, the impact that actually occurred is bigger than the ones they modeled.
That does not anyway mean that the telescope is seriously damaged before it can even go about its work. The position of the mirror segments can be moved a little, allowing a damaged segment to be precisely refocused to cancel out the effect of the ding. Ground crews have already adjusted the damaged segment accordingly, keeping the telescope on-track to release its first images to the public on 12th July!
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