{"id":139622,"date":"2022-05-20T03:02:17","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T08:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/nasa-says-space-debris-will-definitely-slam-into-the-james-webb-space-telescope"},"modified":"2022-05-20T03:02:17","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T08:02:17","slug":"nasa-says-space-debris-will-definitely-slam-into-the-james-webb-space-telescope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/nasa-says-space-debris-will-definitely-slam-into-the-james-webb-space-telescope","title":{"rendered":"NASA Says Space Debris Will Definitely Slam Into the James Webb Space Telescope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-says-space-debris-will-definitely-slam-into-the-james-webb-space-telescope2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope is \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Dr_ThomasZ\/status\/1479930440127553542\" class=\"\">fully deployed<\/a>,\u201d according to the agency\u2019s science administrator Thomas Zurbuchen \u2014 and that\u2019s certainly a reason to celebrate after decades of hard work and a ten billion dollar price tag.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tlGTem8vkB0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>But the massive space observatory isn\u2019t out of the woods just yet. As it spins around the Sun in a <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/james-webb-space-telescope-orbit\" class=\"\">chaotic orbit<\/a>, it will likely encounter plenty of space debris along the way \u2014 and an impact, its team says, is likely inevitable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome small impacts from micrometeorites will happen,\u201d NASA Goddard Space Flight Center scientist Michelle Thaller said during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tlGTem8vkB0\" class=\"\">a livestream<\/a> over the weekend. \u201cYou know, over the lifetime of the mission there will be some damage to the mirrors of the telescope.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope is \u201cfully deployed,\u201d according to the agency\u2019s science administrator Thomas Zurbuchen \u2014 and that\u2019s certainly a reason to celebrate after decades of hard work and a ten billion dollar price tag. But the massive space observatory isn\u2019t out of the woods just yet. As it spins around the Sun in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}