Brand-new space telescope launched in 2023 has 'damaged doors', says NASA
aperture door installed in an expensive space telescope is currently jammed, giving scientists and observers at NASA and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) research centers, a bulk-load of trouble.
New space telescope was part of joint NASA mission
According to reports, the space telescope was a part of the X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM), which is a joint partnership between Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and NASA in a bid to get new details around the formation of the universe as well as dark matter, which we know seemingly little about. However, doom struck sometime after the space telescope was launched in 2023's month of September.
One of the aperture doors that covers a particle-detecting device called 'Resolve' has stayed defected and jammed, that has paralyzed scientists since this XRISM mission was vetted to be NASA's alternative approach to the Chandra X-ray Observatory, according to Yahoo News. According to reports there is also a serious budget crunch around the Chandra Observatory as well, making the road ahead even more complex for NASA.
Highly sensitive and valuable equipment paralyzed due to jammed doors, scientists perplexed
Scientists are currently in a great deal of distress as Resolve, which is an incredibly sensitive X-ray spectrometer, is not being able to work in its full potential. Although it can measure high-energy X-rays, as the jammed door does not affect that study, it cannot measure extremely
