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February 2021
Space archaeology - preserving our orbital heritage
...unsuccessful with many derelict units partially de-orbited (a nod to the regulations) but now awaiting the inevitability of atmospheric drag and gravity to take effect. The Hubble Space Telescope - cultural as well as ...of significant items still in orbit that may merit 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...
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 look... a lot of fun. Most of them would dearly love to visit other worlds; even to take a trip into Earth orbit. Sadly, this is as yet impossible but they do the next-best thing. In 1988, a dozen Soviet artists met...
February 2020
Preserving our space heritage
...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 ... The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has contributed enormously to our understanding of the Universe and could be curated in-orbit as a space museum exhibit. Interaction A space museum should seek to document its exhibits in orbit by sending...
February 2022
Revolution and responsibility: the challenges of space
...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... space and celestial bodies as the common heritage of humankind is to recognise and accept the burden of managing what we discover and what we benefit from as reasonable managers. Today, this responsibility concerns both orbits ...
January 2023
Original Sin - Power, Technology and War in Outer Space
... 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 Earth... on others where possible. The economic system dominating Earth depends on several thousand active satellites in orbit, along with the elaborate terrestrial infrastructure that supports it all. Satellites provide a large range of...
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...
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...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; worlds orbiting other stars. With over...
February 2017
Global robotic network for monitoring near-Earth and outer space
... undiscovered objects, including moving objects, determination of initial orbit and ‘catching” it for additional imaging and the adjustment of orbit calculations are all done automatically without the need for any...of 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 system...
November 2017
Reusable air-launch and the space access paradigm
... was on standby in the event a rescue mission was necessary during the STS-125 mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope. Originally the Shuttle was ‘sold’ on the assumption of 25-30 flights per year over 12 years. Most ... be launched with its BoL propellant load. Thus, a subsonic air-launched RLV that can support the orbital assembly scenario outlined in Figure 5 need only have a payload performance of 4 tonnes to LEO in order to address this ...
