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NASA's $10 Billion Webb Space Telescope Struck by Micrometeoroid
SciTechDaily.com ^ | 08 June 2022 | Thaddeus Cesari - NASA

Posted on 06/09/2022 11:04:46 AM PDT by zeestephen

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To: Colt1851Navy

The old 220 Swift ... old but still mighty fast. Oh, the groundhogs it sent to Heaven!


41 posted on 06/09/2022 2:18:52 PM PDT by Monterrosa-24 (To the barricades !!!)
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To: SuperLuminal

ooooh sh!t... LOL


42 posted on 06/09/2022 2:35:42 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: COBOL2Java
"...The movie "Gravity" ..."

I just started watching it. I've never seen it.
Thanks!

She just detached from the spiraling debris, is spinning through space -
and I just hit pause to go eat dinner.

43 posted on 06/09/2022 2:41:41 PM PDT by GaltAdonis
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To: The Free Engineer
So it is not serviceable.

Well... Yes and no. It wouldn't be easy and it'd be hideously expensive... but it could be done.

44 posted on 06/09/2022 2:45:13 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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To: DoodleBob

That’s why one would fold space when traveling such distances.
Now where did I put my space folder ?


45 posted on 06/09/2022 3:08:08 PM PDT by daku
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To: zeestephen

The micrometeoroid mistook it for a food production facility.


46 posted on 06/09/2022 4:11:54 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (“Government is the problem.” --Milton Friedman)
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To: Monterrosa-24

I could get 220 swift when I could not get 9mm or almost anything else except shotgun shells


47 posted on 06/09/2022 4:59:04 PM PDT by algore
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To: cgbg

If that human is on earth, the thing would have been vaporized before getting to the human.

In space, I’d imagine it would ruin your spacewalk for that day!


48 posted on 06/09/2022 5:40:55 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: The Free Engineer
So it is not serviceable.

Why not?

If it made it to that location, what keeps something else from doing the same?

49 posted on 06/09/2022 5:42:25 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Musketeer

“the two Voyager missions still operate.”

The crusty old white engineers that designed those things have retired.

NASA is so ^%$#ed.


50 posted on 06/10/2022 4:05:09 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: zeestephen

“...marginally detectable effect in data” What effect?


51 posted on 06/10/2022 4:15:34 AM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: NetAddicted

I will guess the micro-damage creates a blank spot or possibly visual static on that part of the image.


52 posted on 06/10/2022 6:17:35 AM PDT by zeestephen
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