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 telescope's 6.5-meter wide primary reflector, between May 23 and 25. The shield functions as a reflector, allowing the world's most sensitive infrared sensor to record images of stars and galaxies. In late December, JWST was launched into space.
Fortunately, engineers anticipated JWST colliding with space debris, though the most recent event is concerning.
"Since launch, we have had four smaller measurable micrometeoroid strikes that were consistent with expectations and this one more recen...
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