Low-effort article. It's the same hit that has been discussed many times before, with no new information coming from The Independent.

The original paper is https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.05632

> By contrast, the micrometeoroid which hit segment C3 in the period 22—24 May 2022 UT caused significant uncorrectable change in the overall figure of that segment. However, the effect was small at the full telescope level because only a small portion of the telescope area was affected.

Overall, small effect, mission carries on.

We just can’t have nice things in space