Located at a distance of approximately 1.5 million kilometers from Earth and costing 10 billion dollars, the telescope was designed to withstand harsh space conditions such as micro meteor fragments, but there were still some problems with the device.
According to the statement made by NASA; It was stated that the telescope’s near-infrared imaging and spectrograph – NIRISS module failed and the flight system was disabled. The Canadian Space Agency, which developed the module, and NASA are working together to find the source of the problem. It was also stated that there was no damage to the hardware part, and that the explorations were interrupted.
NIRISS module is used for 4 different researches. One is to analyze the elements that make up the atmosphere by analyzing light signals from exoplanets. The other is to examine objects that are very close in the field of view. The third is to be able to study thousands of galaxies at once, and the last is to study exoplanet transit spectroscopy. It can do some of these at the same time.
