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NASA: Micrometeoroid Causes Significant Uncorrectable Damage To James Webb Space Telescope.
THE STANDEFORD JOURNAL ^ | 7/20/22 | Donald Standeford

Posted on 07/20/2022 9:26:50 AM PDT by C210N


(Excerpt) Read more at ssj.news ...


TOPICS: Astronomy
KEYWORDS: 10billion4atelescope; 10billionwasted; damage; hubbell; webb; webbtelescope
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To: C210N

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.


21 posted on 07/20/2022 9:46:53 AM PDT by ga1948
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To: butlerweave

I thought it was over $14 billion.


22 posted on 07/20/2022 9:46:54 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Politicians are only marginally good at one thing, being politicians. Otherwise they are fools.)
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To: C210N
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....

23 posted on 07/20/2022 9:48:46 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: C210N

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


24 posted on 07/20/2022 9:50:26 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: Sequoyah101
I wondered how long it would take and it didn’t take long.

What didn't take long?

25 posted on 07/20/2022 9:50:39 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: C210N

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.


26 posted on 07/20/2022 9:51:35 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: C210N
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?

27 posted on 07/20/2022 9:51:51 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Great minds drink alike...me and my baby havin' a hell of a night. - - BB King)
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To: crusty old prospector
It'll probably buff out. Just gotta get someone there to buff.

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


28 posted on 07/20/2022 9:53:19 AM PDT by C210N (Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.)
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To: Sequoyah101
How many billions of dollars?

About 10.

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

29 posted on 07/20/2022 9:54:31 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: C210N

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.


30 posted on 07/20/2022 9:55:43 AM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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To: C210N
Significant Uncorrectable Damage To James Webb Space Telescope.

Before Impact

After Impact

-PJ

31 posted on 07/20/2022 9:56:20 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
So...non-story? Nothing burger?

You bet it is...

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

32 posted on 07/20/2022 9:57:38 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Sequoyah101

“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.


33 posted on 07/20/2022 9:58:14 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: C210N

Perhaps God doesn’t want his photo taken?


34 posted on 07/20/2022 9:59:39 AM PDT by Rebelbase (Joe Biden, VOTUS. Vegetable of the United States.)
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To: Sequoyah101

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.


35 posted on 07/20/2022 10:03:14 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Rush, we're missing your take on all of this!)
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To: Rebelbase
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...☺

36 posted on 07/20/2022 10:04:06 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: C210N

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

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


37 posted on 07/20/2022 10:05:11 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Damn it! We need Trump! America First!)
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To: I want the USA back

Try reading the article for the answer to your question.


38 posted on 07/20/2022 10:07:59 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: C210N

Ouch...
Danged mosquitos!


39 posted on 07/20/2022 10:08:41 AM PDT by SuperLuminal
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To: dragnet2

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.


40 posted on 07/20/2022 10:17:29 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Rush, we're missing your take on all of this!)
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