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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: I want the USA back
It's like wearing your glasses in a sandstorm. You know they'll be scratched and only be usable for a limited amount of time, but then you get hit by a pebble on the first day.

Sometimes you get lucky and equipment expected to last for a few years keep running like the Voyager probes or some of the Mars rivers. Other times you get unlucky and blow up on launch. This was unlucky and noticable, but degrading rather than destructive.

41 posted on 07/20/2022 10:23:03 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (If Hitler invaded Hell, I would make at least a favourable reference of the Devil...-Churchill)
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To: Sequoyah101
"...Taylor Swift’s cat to endorse products..."

Really? Which products?
I got my credit card in hand, and I'm ready to SHOP!

/s

;-)

42 posted on 07/20/2022 10:23:07 AM PDT by GaltAdonis
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To: C210N

“Relax, all right? My old man is a television repairman, he’s got this ultimate set of tools. I can fix it.”


43 posted on 07/20/2022 10:30:38 AM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: C210N

sun-earth L2 is a dust magnet. Hopefully they got the risk assessment and mitigation right. Space exploration is a domain where engineering is hard (Webb is a million miles outward from Earth!), but as we can see, the payoff is fabulous, especially with pushing the state of art in engineering.

At this point astronomers and astrophysicists and planetary scientists (all those exo disciplines) should be thinking about extra-terrestrial platforms for almost everything new. There’s other L2 points in the outer solar system that could conceivably support more observatories, and there may also exist useful material around those points for in-situ-resource-utilization.

Further out, even though it’s super difficult, a mission to the solar gravitational lens at 542+ AU would have a tremendous payoff.


44 posted on 07/20/2022 10:31:09 AM PDT by no-s (Jabonera, urna, jurado, cartucho ... ya sabes cómo va...)
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To: C210N

Was this a woke impact from those who decided that Web was racist? sarc/


45 posted on 07/20/2022 10:33:15 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: Wuli
Murphys Law

O'Toole's Commentary - Murphy was an optimist

46 posted on 07/20/2022 10:39:08 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: Pox

I heard the same.


47 posted on 07/20/2022 10:40:34 AM PDT by TheDon (Resist the usurpers)
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To: no-s

An observatory on the dark side of the moon would likely work well. It could be repaired, maintained and upgraded as needed as technology advances. Actually, this should have been done 35 years ago.


48 posted on 07/20/2022 10:41:38 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dragnet2; All

Except it would have to have been done remotely. All equipment, setup, etc. done via 1980s control and AI technology. Probably several failures until they got it right, we all know it wouldn’t have got past the first failure. You say set it up with a Moon base as the staging area. Given the mentality that’s existed since the 1970s, the first death would have shut that effort down. Sometimes it’s hard to believe any of our ancestors ever ventured out of their squalid village.


49 posted on 07/20/2022 10:51:47 AM PDT by Reily
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To: ga1948

Now THIS is a situation where AI robotics and modular construction could be a benefit - make such an isolated system self-maintaining.


50 posted on 07/20/2022 10:52:03 AM PDT by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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To: C210N

One of the big problems launching something into a Lagrange point is theory says they tend to collect lots of junk.


51 posted on 07/20/2022 10:57:42 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: C210N

Not good to lose a mirror so quickly in the mission. They may have not modeled the L2 debris density correctly.

Presumably they are prioritizing the most interesting targets first in any case, as you would when you have no guarantee of a working instrument from one day to the next.


52 posted on 07/20/2022 11:00:23 AM PDT by JustaTech (A mind is a terrible thing)
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To: C210N

Putin’s fault.


53 posted on 07/20/2022 11:02:15 AM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: Reily
Except it would have to have been done remotely.

No biggy. Even my tiny optical observatory can be operated remotely from inside my home.

54 posted on 07/20/2022 11:12:51 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Political Junkie Too
Funny stuff! Good one!

55 posted on 07/20/2022 11:13:45 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: dragnet2
Btw, there are certain groups of people that would love to see JWST completely destroyed.

Who, and why?

56 posted on 07/20/2022 11:15:01 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: C210N

Back to the old drawing board 🤪


57 posted on 07/20/2022 11:18:16 AM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it)
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To: gitmo

C’mon man, no one saw this coming!


58 posted on 07/20/2022 11:24:39 AM PDT by shotgun
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To: C210N; Daffynition; Red Badger
"Where there is no vision, the people perish":

"A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid."

59 posted on 07/20/2022 11:26:05 AM PDT by Ezekiel (🆘️ . . . - - - . . . "Come fly with US". Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with Mars ♂️)
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To: C210N

Shields! Scotty, I need those shields!


60 posted on 07/20/2022 11:33:13 AM PDT by Flick Lives
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