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February 2021
Space archaeology - preserving our orbital heritage
...regulations) but now awaiting the inevitability of atmospheric drag and gravity to take effect. The Hubble Space Telescope - cultural as well as scientific icon. Harvest option The threat posed by debris within...consideration. Case study One notable space asset within the space heritage discussion is the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). Launched in 1988 aboard Space Shuttle Discovery, it is clear that the venerable space telescope has a limited future...
March 2016
Why We Need Space Artists
... the same sort of comments when photography was invented, when digital art became available, when the Hubble Space Telescope sent back its first amazing images of distant stars and nebulae. . . But let’s take a ...to assume that there could be vegetation, growing and spreading as the pole cap melts in spring. Night launch of Discovery (Acrylics, 1995) a private commission Some astronomers, notably Percival Lowell, even believed that they saw ‘canals...
February 2020
Preserving our space heritage
...we would wish to preserve as important parts of our space heritage in some kind of space museum? Save our satellites Scientific satellites such as the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) have contributed enormously to our understanding ... to the latter question is perhaps an easier one to address. Scientific satellites such as the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) have contributed enormously to our understanding of the universe and are surely worth preserving...
February 2022
Revolution and responsibility: the challenges of space
... at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Surrounded by stars - this starfield, captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for Surveys, contains the globular cluster ESO 520...astronomers were encouraged by the work of Nicholas Copernicus, who had died fifty years earlier, and the discoveries of Galileo Galilei. They had broken the beautiful order of the heavens that had presided since Antiquity...
January 2023
Original Sin - Power, Technology and War in Outer Space
...interlinked. “Politics has always been at the heart of humankind’s exploration and utilisation of space, and the space programmes themselves have never been able to transcend terrestrial international politics”. US astronaut, Kevin Ford...in part originally designed and funded to meet the Pentagon’s and the Intelligence Community’s needs. The Hubble Space Telescope is an adapted KH-11 spy satellite that simply looks to the cosmos rather than down on...
May 2022
Essential guide to the James Webb Space Telescope
... science, we cannot imagine the universe the James Webb Space Telescope is about to reveal. WST is not ‘Hubble’s Replacement’ but ‘Hubble’s Successor’, designed to build on Hubble’s rich legacy and even to work side-by-side with ...perform. First year of science With over 5000 known exoplanets, we are progressing from the Era of Discovery to the Era of Understanding, ready to characterise these worlds and search for possible signs of life ...
August 2018
Exoplanet census promises radical discoveries
... Infra-Red Survey Telescope (WFIRST). It is about the same size as its predecessor, the Hubble Space Telescope, but has 100 times the field of view with the same resolving power, enabling revolutionary...-Field Infra-Red Survey Telescope (WFIRST), to be launched in 2025, is designed to make revolutionary exoplanet discoveries, as well as study dark energy. WFIRST’s exoplanet microlensing survey will provide a statistical census of exoplanets beyond...
February 2017
Global robotic network for monitoring near-Earth and outer space
...while automatically receiving and processing images, locating new objects from those images and reporting these discoveries to interested parties (such as emergency services, agencies, etc), or publishing the information ...Jupiter which is 8.6 km in diameter, has an absolute magnitude of 21 and the visible light limit of the Hubble Space Telescope is 32. The angular speed of movement can reach 20-50 degrees per second. In recent years, the MASTER ...
May 2020
Space astronomy at the limits of technology
..., has worked on all four of NASA’s Great Observatories - Hubble, Compton, Chandra and Spitzer – which gives him a fairly unique perspective on space science. ROOM’s US editor, Amanda Miller, delves into his engineering... the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, on 30 January 2020. My first Great Observatory was the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). I was a team member on the high resolution spectrograph, which was one of the instruments...
