Small Meteoroid Hits $10 Billion Webb Space Telescope

PORTAL LEBAK – A small meteoroid hit the newly launched James Webb Space Telescope last December, in May 2022.

This left one of its gold-plated mirrors misaligned, though it didn’t change the orbiting observatory’s schedule for full operation soon, said NASA on Wednesday 8 June 2022.

The little space rock hit telescope worth 10 billion dollars at the end of May 2022.

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As a result, there is a small but noticeable effect in the data telescopesay NASA in a statement.

The statement at once declared it was the fifth and greatest blow to telescope since its launch in December 2021.

“After initial assessment, the team found telescope still working at a rate that exceeds all mission requirements,” said NASA.

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“A thorough analysis and measurement is ongoing,” he said PortalLebak.com from Reuters.

Engineers have initiated a subtle readjustment of the affected mirror segment to help “undo some of the distortion” caused by the micrometeoroids, said NASA.

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