NASA Tweaking JWST Mirror To Mitigate Micrometeorite Impact

Lee Feinberg
The James Webb Space Telescope optical team, headed by Lee Feinberg, will continue to tweak the observatory’s mirror with a procedure known as wave front sensing.
Credit: Chris Gunn/NASA
When the James Webb Space Telescope’s primary mirror was hit by a micrometeoroid in late May, it made the headlines. But that was just the beginning of the story. Hits detected during routine monitoring Impacts providing data about L2 micrometeoroid environment The same technology engineers used to...
Irene Klotz

Irene Klotz is Senior Space Editor for Aviation Week, based in Cape Canaveral. Before joining Aviation Week in 2017, Irene spent 25 years as a wire service reporter covering human and robotic spaceflight, commercial space, astronomy, science and technology for Reuters and United Press International.

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