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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
The world’s most powerful space telescope and the successor to NASA's famed Hubble Space Telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has had its launch date delayed again, this time until approximately May 2020. ... increases. But, 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 budget problems...
May 2020
Space astronomy at the limits of technology
... in mission control at 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 that Ball...
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of stars, nebulae and galaxies - even the Hubble Space Telescope and developments in terrestrial observing have not superseded but only provided much...
February 2021
Space archaeology - preserving our orbital heritage
...new targets. Thomas Brown of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Maryland and Hubble mission head, recently said that Hubble’s orbit is stable until the 2030s. The big question is, what happens after that? ... love for the aging space telescope. Some highlighted the benefits of keeping Hubble going by pointing to the multiple issues with the forthcoming James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Many opined that it was questionable whether it will ever...
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 common...historical background to the HST 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...
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...we might want to curate? The answer 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 ...
January 2023
Original Sin - Power, Technology and War in Outer Space
...at the ‘why’, ‘should’ and ‘so what’ kind of questions that space activities pose, not the relatively simple technical questions of whether something ‘can’ be done. Space is not just for the scientists – we need to discuss ...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. The International Space Station was a product of intense political ...
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 (... to our own planet, because we have built and acquired a singular responsibility towards it. It is not a question of ignoring national claims but of preparing ourselves for a possible evolution and even for a revolution caused by the...
