NASA Tweaking JWST Mirror To Mitigate Micrometeorite Impact
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...
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