Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and SpacePublisher:
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Category : Astronautics and state
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Status of the Hubble Space Telescope
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and SpacePublisher:
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Category : Astronautics and state
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Assessment of Options for Extending the Life of the Hubble Space Telescope
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309095301
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has operated continuously since 1990. During that time, four space shuttle-based service missions were launched, three of which added major observational capabilities. A fifth â€" SM-4 â€" was intended to replace key telescope systems and install two new instruments. The loss of the space shuttle Columbia, however, resulted in a decision by NASA not to pursue the SM-4 mission leading to a likely end of Hubble's useful life in 2007-2008. This situation resulted in an unprecedented outcry from scientists and the public. As a result, NASA began to explore and develop a robotic servicing mission; and Congress directed NASA to request a study from the National Research Council (NRC) of the robotic and shuttle servicing options for extending the life of Hubble. This report presents an assessment of those two options. It provides an examination of the contributions made by Hubble and those likely as the result of a servicing mission, and a comparative analysis of the potential risk of the two options for servicing Hubble. The study concludes that the Shuttle option would be the most effective one for prolonging Hubble's productive life.
Space Science
Author: United States. General Accounting Office. National Security and International Affairs DivisionPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Status of the Hubble Space Telescope
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and SpacePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronautics and state
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Hubble Space Telescope
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Handprints on Hubble
Author: Kathryn D. SullivanPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262355949
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
The first American woman to walk in space recounts her experience as part of the team that launched, rescued, repaired, and maintained the Hubble Space Telescope The Hubble Space Telescope has revolutionized our understanding of the universe. It has, among many other achievements, revealed thousands of galaxies in what seemed to be empty patches of sky; transformed our knowledge of black holes; found dwarf planets with moons orbiting other stars; and measured precisely how fast the universe is expanding. In Handprints on Hubble, retired astronaut Kathryn Sullivan describes her work on the NASA team that made all this possible. Sullivan, the first American woman to walk in space, recounts how she and other astronauts, engineers, and scientists launched, rescued, repaired, and maintained Hubble, the most productive observatory ever built. Along the way, Sullivan chronicles her early life as a “Sputnik Baby,” her path to NASA through oceanography, and her initiation into the space program as one of “thirty-five new guys.” (She was also one of the first six women to join NASA’s storied astronaut corps.) She describes in vivid detail what liftoff feels like inside a spacecraft (it’s like “being in an earthquake and a fighter jet at the same time”), shows us the view from a spacewalk, and recounts the temporary grounding of the shuttle program after the Challenger disaster. Sullivan explains that “maintainability” was designed into Hubble, and she describes the work of inventing the tools and processes that made on-orbit maintenance possible. Because in-flight repair and upgrade was part of the plan, NASA was able to fix a serious defect in Hubble’s mirrors—leaving literal and metaphorical “handprints on Hubble.” Handprints on Hubble was published with the support of the MIT Press Fund for Diverse Voices.
Hubble Vision
Author: Carolyn Collins PetersenPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521592918
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Discusses how the findings from the Hubble Space Telescope have affected the way scientists study the universe; includes photographs that were taken by the Hubble Telescope of the planets, distant galaxies, black holes, and the Shoemaker-Levy comet.
Status of the Hubble Space Telescope
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and SpacePublisher:
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Category : Astronautics and state
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Space Science
Author: United States. General Accounting Office. National Security and International Affairs DivisionPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
The Hubble Wars
Author: Eric ChaissonPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674412552
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
The Hubble Space Telescope is the largest, most complex, and most powerful observatory ever deployed in space. Now Eric Chaisson, the senior scientist on the HST project, tells the inside story of the much heralded mission to fix the telescope. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.