Posted on 06/09/2022 11:04:46 AM PDT by zeestephen
These tiny meteoroids typically weigh less than a gram, yet they still pose a significant threat to spacecraft because their average speed...is a staggering 22,500 mph...After initial assessments, the team found the telescope is still performing at a level that exceeds all mission requirements despite a marginally detectable effect in the data.
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The old 220 Swift ... old but still mighty fast. Oh, the groundhogs it sent to Heaven!
ooooh sh!t... LOL
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.
Well... Yes and no. It wouldn't be easy and it'd be hideously expensive... but it could be done.
That’s why one would fold space when traveling such distances.
Now where did I put my space folder ?
The micrometeoroid mistook it for a food production facility.
I could get 220 swift when I could not get 9mm or almost anything else except shotgun shells
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!
Why not?
If it made it to that location, what keeps something else from doing the same?
“the two Voyager missions still operate.”
The crusty old white engineers that designed those things have retired.
NASA is so ^%$#ed.
“...marginally detectable effect in data” What effect?
I will guess the micro-damage creates a blank spot or possibly visual static on that part of the image.
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