NASA: Micrometeoroid Causes Significant Uncorrectable Damage To James Webb Space Telescope.

THE STANDEFORD JOURNAL ^ | 7/20/22 | Donald Standeford

[ga1948]

The problem of a man made object being in a one million mile diameter orbit is that it would be impossible with presently known propellants to go out to it, stop, fix the problem, and return to earth .Let’s hope the telescope has self healing abilities.

[Sequoyah101]

I thought it was over $14 billion.

[dragnet2]

The impact however does not seem to have damaged the telescope's ability to perform any of its tasks. Rather, the telescope is exceeding expectations "almost all across the board".

This is going to anger some folks....

[gitmo]

Biden even screwed up this telescope. C’mon Man !! Get with it.

[dragnet2]

I wondered how long it would take and it didn’t take long.

What didn't take long?

[Vermont Lt]

Takes a licking, but keeps on ticking.

They state that even shot up, it’s performing above their expectations. I guess it was intentionally over engineered.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

From linked article;

The impact however does not seem to have damaged the telescope's ability to perform any of its tasks. Rather, the telescope is exceeding expectations "almost all across the board".

So...non-story? Nothing burger?

[C210N]

It'll probably buff out. Just gotta get someone there to buff.

In the mean time, perhaps NASA can provide stock photos.

[dragnet2]

How many billions of dollars?

About 10.

You do realize your government was/is wasting *trillions* in American treasure on foreign countries, right?

[pierrem15]

The physical damage may be unrepairable and there will be some loss of image quality, but I would think comparing post-impact images with calibration images would mean much of the degradation could be eliminated with software.

[Political Junkie Too]

Significant Uncorrectable Damage To James Webb Space Telescope.

Before Impact

After Impact

-PJ

[dragnet2]

So...non-story? Nothing burger?

You bet it is...

Btw, there are certain groups of people that would love to see JWST completely destroyed.

[Boogieman]

“Such a society should not last long but it does somehow.”

Decadent societies can last quite a while if they don’t have any real competition militarily, which is the case we are currently in. We only have to worry about the barbarians inside our own society, who can bypass our military defenses, but we’ve already bred a couple generations of them, so it shouldn’t be long now.

[Rebelbase]

Perhaps God doesn’t want his photo taken?

[Alas Babylon!]

Oh, come on...

The English’s first colony in North America, was utterly lost, and the whole population mysteriously gone; never found again.

Jamestown lost 2/3rds of its colonists the first year, and was almost wiped out by Indians after only a few years.

In the Pilgrim’s Plymouth had a similar almost-disaster.

Perhaps they shouldn’t have even tried, and “wasted” all the Queen/King’s treasure.

Then us American born conservatives could be tugging our forelocks when Prince Harry rode his stead by our bent backs.

[dragnet2]

The impact however does not seem to have damaged the telescope's ability to perform any of its tasks. Rather, the telescope is exceeding expectations "almost all across the board".

This is going to anger some folks...

Perhaps God doesn’t want his photo taken?

And there it is...☺

[I want the USA back]

It was designed by PHD “experts” who “knew what they were doing”.

They didn’t know about those little objects moving about in space?

[dragnet2]

Try reading the article for the answer to your question.

[SuperLuminal]

Ouch...
Danged mosquitos!

[Alas Babylon!]

There is a huge difference between a physicist or chemistry PhD and a social “scientist” or Education PhD.

Too bad so many here want to dump the good in with the bad.

It’s plain ignorant.