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GLAST: T minus 4 days
Published on 7 Jun 2008 at 2:06 pm.
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About 3 months ago I wrote about the GLAST (Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope) and the search for a new name for the mission. The satellite was supposed to launch this weekend, but it has now been delayed until at least June 11. If all goes according to the plan, GLAST will […]
Renaming GLAST
Published on 8 Feb 2008 at 8:17 am.
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NASA renames things a lot. I got used to NGST (Next Generation Space Telescope), and now it is the James Webb Space Telescope. I got used to calling an infrared satellite SIRTIF (Space Infrared Telescope Facility), and then it became the Spitzer Space Telescope. The X-Ray Timing Explorer (XTE) became Rossi. […]
The Hubble Space Telescope
Published on 23 Jul 2007 at 10:28 pm.
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My first choice for one of the Seven Wonders of Astronomy has got to be the Hubble Space Telescope. The HST has been one of the premier instruments of astronomy since its launch in 1990. It wasn’t the first telescope in space, nor is it the only one up there right now. […]
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17 years in orbit
Published on 24 Apr 2007 at 4:23 pm.
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April 24, 1990, 8:34am EDT, Space Shuttle Discovery lifted off from Pad 39-B at the Kennedy Space Center to deliver the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit. The launch had originally been planned for April 10, but it was scrubbed because of a problem with one of the shuttle’s auxiliary power units. Discovery […]
The Latest Hubble Malfunction
Published on 31 Jan 2007 at 1:37 pm.
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I had heard about this a couple days ago, but I held off posting until I was more sure of the issue. It appears that the Hubble Space Telescope has had another instrument failure. The malfunctioning instrument is the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), which is one of the main cameras.
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Hubble Servicing Mission is Go!
Published on 31 Oct 2006 at 12:12 pm.
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A little earlier today, NASA Administrator Michael Griffin made the long awaited and hoped for announcement that one more servicing mission will be sent to the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). After the Columbia accident, plans for another servicing mission were dropped. Missions to the International Space Station have the option of hanging around there until […]
