31 January 2020
A final farewell to NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope
... had officially ended. Launched in 2003, Spitzer was one of NASA's four Great Observatories, along with the Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory. The Great Observatories program demonstrated...
May 2018
Space safety – the problem with dual hatting
... way’. Coming from an organisation that experienced the Apollo, Challenger and Columbia disasters, along with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) fiasco, it is certainly worth digging deeper into both the problem and the NASA rationale. NASA...
10 March 2016
Mysterious infrared light that fills the Universe found with ALMA
... can be detected with ALMA. By comparing the ALMA data with the data taken by the Hubble Space Telescope and the Subaru Telescope, the team found that 60% of the objects they studied are galaxies which can also be seen...
17 June 2016
ExoMars' Trace Gas Orbiter Sends Back First Mars Image
...to be close to prediction.” The images will become even more spectacular as the spacecraft approaches Mars. “Telescopes on Earth and the Hubble Space Telescope in orbit around it can still do far better than us at present, but we are still a long way...
February 2020
Preserving our space heritage
... 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 universe and are surely worth preserving. The...
10 May 2017
Australia announce a strategic partnership with ESO
...The need for long-term partnerships with eight-metre-class optical/infrared telescopes was noted by the Australian government in its Decadal Plan for Australian ... sharper than those from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope at the same wavelength.
