{"id":140300,"date":"2022-06-09T02:03:02","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T07:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/tiny-meteoroid-bops-10-billion-webb-space-telescope"},"modified":"2022-06-09T02:03:02","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T07:03:02","slug":"tiny-meteoroid-bops-10-billion-webb-space-telescope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/tiny-meteoroid-bops-10-billion-webb-space-telescope","title":{"rendered":"Tiny meteoroid bops $10 billion Webb space telescope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tiny-meteoroid-bops-10-billion-webb-space-telescope2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON, June 8 (Reuters) \u2014 A tiny meteoroid struck the newly deployed James Webb Space Telescope in May, knocking one of its gold-plated mirrors out of alignment but not changing the orbiting observatory\u2019s schedule to become fully operational shortly, NASA said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The little space rock hit the $10 billion telescope sometime in late May and left a small but noticeable effect in the telescope\u2019s data, NASA said in a statement, adding that it was the fifth and largest hit to the telescope since its December launch. <a data-testid=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/lifestyle\/science\/nasas-revolutionary-new-space-telescope-due-launch-french-guiana-2021-12-25\/\" class=\"\"> read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter initial assessments, the team found the telescope is still performing at a level that exceeds all mission requirements,\u201d NASA said. \u201cThorough analysis and measurements are ongoing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, June 8 (Reuters) \u2014 A tiny meteoroid struck the newly deployed James Webb Space Telescope in May, knocking one of its gold-plated mirrors out of alignment but not changing the orbiting observatory\u2019s schedule to become fully operational shortly, NASA said on Wednesday. The little space rock hit the $10 billion telescope sometime in late [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":600,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asteroid-comet-impacts","category-existential-risks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140300","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\/600"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}