Every spacecraft glitches occasionally, and even the James Webb Space Telescope the most powerful observatory ever launched, isn't immune.
Every spacecraft glitches occasionally, and even the most powerful space telescope ever launched isn't immune. launched in December 2021 and has been conducting science observations since July 2022, stunning the world with its gorgeous images and revolutionary data. But on Jan.
15, JWST's Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph instrument"experienced a communications delay within the instrument, causing its flight software to time out," according to a Jan. 24"There is no indication of any danger to the hardware, and the observatory and other instruments are all in good health," NASA officials wrote."The affected science observations will be rescheduled.
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