Posted: Sun, Sep 25, 2022, 8:45 AM ET (1245 GMT)
NASA officials Wednesday played down an issue that has taken part of an instrument on the James Webb Space Telescope offline. NASA said Tuesday that one of four observing modes on JWST's MIRI instrument is unavailable after controllers noticed increased levels of friction in a mechanism. Agency officials said at the International Astronautical Congress Wednesday that they don't expect the problem to be a long-term issue for MIRI and that it is studying it "out of an abundance of caution."

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