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May 2022
Essential guide to the James Webb Space Telescope
...extraordinary 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...used to block out stellar light when studying exoplanets. NIRCam was used to initially focus the telescope, part of the ongoing six-month commissioning phase, which began at the end of January. Even though...
May 2020
Space astronomy at the limits of technology
... 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 ... of the giant planet’s many rings which was discovered by Spitzer. Which part of the process do you enjoy most? My favourite part is the environmental testing, when you’re actually doing those three core aspects...
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...
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 ...parts of America, enthralling the public with vast canvases of mountains, deserts and 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...
February 2021
Space archaeology - preserving our orbital heritage
...Under normal conditions, objects in LEO undergo orbital decay. Once an item reaches the densest parts of the atmosphere, decay increases rapidly with surface heating adding to the effect, resulting in...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 lifespan....
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
...that 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... 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 2017
Global robotic network for monitoring near-Earth and outer space
... axis which allows the separation of the telescopes to be adjusted. The telescopes are parallel and, when pivoting, MASTER II can provide synchronous imaging of the interesting part of the sky in colour or polarized ... 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 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 520-21 (also... and during the 2003 Northeast blackout, a widespread power outage that affected 55 million people throughout parts of the Northeastern and Midwestern United States, and the Canadian province of Ontario. The two futures...
