NASA’s $10 Billion Space Telescope Hit By Micro Meteoroid

Last month, the $10 billion space telescope made by NASA, the JWST, was hit by a micro meteoroid, but it's still operational and will release full-color photos of outer space on July 12 without any delay.

A small meteoroid damaged NASA's $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), striking one of the spacecraft's 18 hexagonal gold-coated mirrors.

According to NASA, a dust-sized micrometeoroid struck JWST's C3 mirror segment, one of the 18 beryllium-gold tiles that make up the teles...

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