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Current amount of damage has JWST operating perfectly fine, it was created to sustain some damage and still function for its mission. If the JWST gets hit by a
by NineStarPoint 4y ago
Current amount of damage has JWST operating perfectly fine, it was created to sustain some damage and still function for its mission. If the JWST gets hit by a second unexpectedly large micrometeorite it’ll become an issue though. Getting hit once this quickly is bad luck, getting hit twice would probably mean we were wrong about how common debris of that size was at JWST’s position.
- spenczar5 4y agoI think you are more sanguine than the JWST team themselves. They say (from that article): “It is not yet clear whether the May 2022 hit to segment C3 was a rare event.”