NASA’s James Webb telescope gets hit by a micrometeroid

The entire team responsible for this fiasco (the Webb telescope) should be fired from Government work. I give this boondoggle less than 5 years.  Way to throw a ton of money away and further pollute our atmosphere for the interests of a very few. Such promise; inexcusably poor execution.

Lee Feinberg, Webb optical telescope element manager at NASA Goddard, said: “With Webb’s mirrors exposed to space, we expected that occasional micrometeoroid impacts would gracefully degrade telescope performance over time. Since launch, we have had four smaller measurable micrometeoroid strikes that were consistent with expectations and this one more recently that is larger than our degradation predictions assumed. We will use this flight data to update our analysis of performance over time and also develop operational approaches to assure we maximize the imaging performance of Webb to the best extent possible for many years to come.”

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