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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 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;...
28 March 2018
Woes for Webb as the space telescope is delayed again
... up of three elements; the Integrated Science Instrument Module (ISIM), the Optical Telescope Element (OTE) - the eye of the telescope which includes a 6.5 metre diameter primary mirror (Hubble’s is 2.4 metres) made up of 18 hexagonal segments – and the...do any missions lift off without a hitch? Let's not forget JWST’s predecessor, the Hubble Space Telescope. Hubble, which was the JWST of its time, was also beset by numerous technical delays and...
May 2020
Space astronomy at the limits of technology
...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 ...can’t detect anything colder than the temperature of the optical surfaces, so you have to cool them as much as possible. An artist’s concept depicting the Spitzer Space Telescope in space much as it would appear at the end of ...
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 ... 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of stars, nebulae and galaxies - even the Hubble Space Telescope and developments in terrestrial observing have not superseded but only provided much...
29 March 2018
NASA Hubble Space Telescope Owners’ Workshop Manual
The Hubble Space Telescope is one the most iconic spacecraft of the entire Space Age and this Haynes Workshop Manual provides a good introduction to the science and technology involved. In ...to (briefly) its successor, the James Webb Space Telescope. Significant sections include those on the design and development of the Hubble and its scientific instrument payload and one on the “corrective optics” delivered to orbit after it was discovered that...
February 2017
Global robotic network for monitoring near-Earth and outer space
...the world, an unparalleled location for this innovative research. Wide-field optical complex Robot-telescope MASTER II is a wide-field optical complex - an observatory that can work autonomously, without human participation....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...
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 the.... 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 lifespan...
February 2020
Preserving our space heritage
... 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 of...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
... 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 520-21 (...Universe, surrounded by crystal spheres on the surface of which circulated the known planets. But thanks to the telescope and mathematical calculations, it became necessary to think of the sky as a sphere whose centre was everywhere...
