#ISS The #Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (#BEAM) was installed 📆 2016 and will remain attached to the station until 📆 2028. #NASA noted in 📆 2017, after spending one year in #space, the BEAM instrumentation had recorded "a few probable #micrometeoroid ☄️ #debris #impacts" but that the module's #protective layers 🛡️ had resisted #penetration. It has #exceeded expectations and is used as additional #cargo 📦 storage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigelow_Expandable_Activity_Module
Picture : Alexander Gerst, Serena Auñón-Chancellor and Sergey Prokopyev inside BEAM 📆 2018 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ISS-56_Alexander_Gerst,_Serena_Au%C3%B1%C3%B3n-Chancellor_and_Sergey_Prokopyev_inside_the_BEAM.jpg
#NASA’s new powerful space telescope gets hit by larger than expected #micrometeoroid
The space agency says the telescope should still perform great science.
https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/8/23160209/nasa-james-webb-space-telescope-meteor-strike-impact
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