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One of the telescope’s 18 hexagonal mirrors took a nasty strike from a micrometeoroid, but that had limited impact.
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Joel Achenbach, Washington Post, 12 July 2024
On those lengthy missions, the top risk to the spacecraft and its crew will be potential damage from collisions with space debris or micrometeoroids, small fragments of rock and dust coming toward Earth from the Solar System.
—Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 6 May 2024
The Apollo landers and the Apollo rovers are still sitting on the lunar surface and have been probably bombarded by micrometeoroids, space dust flying around, definitely bombarded by radiation from the sun and cosmic sources.
—Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Jan. 2024
Russian engineers determined the leak was most likely caused by an impact from a tiny fragment of rock from deep space, called a micrometeoroid, which ruptured a coolant line and sent a spray of snowflake-like particles into space as the Soyuz remained docked at the station.
—Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 27 Sep. 2023
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Joel Achenbach, Washington Post, 12 July 2024
On those lengthy missions, the top risk to the spacecraft and its crew will be potential damage from collisions with space debris or micrometeoroids, small fragments of rock and dust coming toward Earth from the Solar System.
—Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 6 May 2024
The Apollo landers and the Apollo rovers are still sitting on the lunar surface and have been probably bombarded by micrometeoroids, space dust flying around, definitely bombarded by radiation from the sun and cosmic sources.
—Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Jan. 2024
Russian engineers determined the leak was most likely caused by an impact from a tiny fragment of rock from deep space, called a micrometeoroid, which ruptured a coolant line and sent a spray of snowflake-like particles into space as the Soyuz remained docked at the station.
—Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 27 Sep. 2023
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“Micrometeoroid.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/micrometeoroid. Accessed 26 Jul. 2024.
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