08 January 2020
New technique on finding oxygen could help find alien life
... in the spectra of a habitable planet is expected to be weak say the team in their paper. Though other telescopes, such as Hubble, can help detect water vapour in different bands of the electromagnetic spectrum to complement these studies. The James...
24 December 2021
Less than 24hrs to go before the launch of JWST!
...a mirror surface area roughly six times larger than that of the Hubble Space Telescope, it has the ability to see some of the ..., whose dust blocks most of the light detectable by the Hubble instruments. “I will be watching the launch with equal parts ...
31 January 2020
A final farewell to NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope
... of NASA's four Great Observatories, along with the Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-ray Observatory and the ...the formation of some planets. In 2016, Spitzer worked with Hubble to image the most distant galaxy ever detected. From 2016 onward...
December 2014
Asteroid Redirect Mission: preparing for Mars in deep space
... space. Human spaceflight has several examples of crewed-robotic vehicle interaction in LEO, such as the Space Shuttle Hubble repair missions. Human-robotic vehicle interactions in deep space present new challenges as they develop new capabilities...
March 2015
On-orbit satellite servicing, insurance and lessons of Palapa B2 and Westar 6
... willing to participate may be limited, ultimately resulting in the satellite being intentionally de-orbited. NASA has serviced the Hubble Space Telescope five times during the space telescope’s 25-year lifetime The salvage clauses in most space...
February 2016
Is Jupiter Really Our Protective Shield?
... System. This allowed Earth’s biosphere to thrive-creating a less hostile environment by lowering the terrestrial impact rate. Hubble Space Telescope image of the blemish on the surface of Jupiter from the impact in 2009 Some have even...
