June 2018
Striding through space
... to reach a record-setting altitude for the Shuttle of 380 miles. A problem encountered during the deployment of the Hubble Space Telescope saw McCandless and a crewmate suited up in the airlock ready for an emergency spacewalk but the problem was...
November 2020
The alien hunter’s field manual
... provide unparalleled resolution, with images more than 12 times sharper than those from the Hubble Space Telescope. The siting of the telescope at Maunakea, Hawaii, has proved controversial and construction has been delayed by protestors. One way...
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 at the...
March 2018
Plumes on Europa - tasting an extra-terrestrial ocean
... erupting at the 7 o’clock position off the limb of Jupiter’s moon Europa. The plumes, photographed by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph, were seen in silhouette as the moon passed in front of Jupiter. NASA/ESA/W Sparks Water vapour...
14 March 2021
Life with Hubble
The old adage “you can’t judge a book by its cover” rings true for this volume on the Hubble Space Telescope: its size, weight and cover design suggest a university text replete with charts and equations, but ...
February 2021
Space archaeology - preserving our orbital heritage
... 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...
