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February 2021
Space archaeology - preserving our orbital heritage
...the 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 .... 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...
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...
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 ...steaming thermal areas that seemed like the gates of Hell itself. In deep space - the province of stars, nebulae and galaxies - even the Hubble Space Telescope and developments in terrestrial observing have not superseded but only provided...
February 2022
Revolution and responsibility: the challenges of space
...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...but I prefer the one that emphasises the responsibility of humanity that explores and will someday exploit space. To declare space and celestial bodies as the common heritage of humankind is to recognise and accept the burden of ...
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 ...of the visible spectrum, deep into the infrared - invisible to Hubble but exactly poised for JWST. Another motivation for selecting an infrared space telescope comes from our recent advances in the field of exoplanets;...
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...
February 2017
Global robotic network for monitoring near-Earth and outer space
...reporting these discoveries to interested parties (such as emergency services, agencies, etc), or publishing the information in special scientific or departmental online publications. Indeed, this is what the MASTER network was developed...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 ...
July 2020
Pandemic in space – are we ready?
...Admittedly, however, the IHR does not specifically address its application in outer space. It only mentions surveillance, notification and information sharing with regard to events occurring within the territory of States. The IHR... in guiding compliance with Article IX of the Outer Space Treaty”. Under a later space law treaty, the Rescue and Return Agreement, States are obliged to share information on “conditions of distress” that may affect the ...
