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"Sam Wormley" |
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23 Jul 2004 10:39:29 PM |
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End of the Line for Hubble? |
End of the Line for Hubble? Astronomers ponder space telescope's final
years With a space shuttle mission to repair and upgrade the Hubble
Space Telescope now canceled, astronomers are pondering how to best use
the flying observatory during its final years.
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20040724/bob9.asp
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| User: "me qsuser" |
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| Title: Re: End of the Line for Hubble? |
23 Jul 2004 11:48:52 PM |
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"Sam Wormley" <swormley1@mchsi.com> wrote in message
news:4101D9E9.74C10067@mchsi.com...
End of the Line for Hubble? Astronomers ponder space telescope's final
years With a space shuttle mission to repair and upgrade the Hubble
Space Telescope now canceled, astronomers are pondering how to best use
the flying observatory during its final years.
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20040724/bob9.asp
A mission to fix hubble must cost $200M or more the way NASA does it.
Nasa says it is a safety issue, but not when they started with the Hubble,
and not in going to Mars, moon etc. So we are not getting the truth, which
is probably cost.
Some of the newer land based scopes are saying that they can do better than
hubble(?)
May be lower cost to have several specilized units that do not need as much
repair (the should fire the Reliability guys, and the Quality guys for the
mirror error)
Anyhow, the US military has lots of sattilites with large mirrors up there
too.
Perhaps the military can use it for target practice -
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| User: "Bootstrap Bill" |
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| Title: Re: End of the Line for Hubble? |
24 Jul 2004 10:12:17 AM |
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"Sam Wormley" <swormley1@mchsi.com> wrote in message
news:4101D9E9.74C10067@mchsi.com...
End of the Line for Hubble? Astronomers ponder space telescope's final
years With a space shuttle mission to repair and upgrade the Hubble
Space Telescope now canceled, astronomers are pondering how to best use
the flying observatory during its final years.
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20040724/bob9.asp
The "Very Large Telescope" (http://www.eso.org/projects/vlt/) in Chili is
scheduled to be completed next year. Who needs Hubble?
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| User: "Eric Gisse" |
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| Title: Re: End of the Line for Hubble? |
24 Jul 2004 08:20:25 PM |
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On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 15:12:17 GMT, "Bootstrap Bill"
<wrcousert@yahoo.com> wrote:
"Sam Wormley" <swormley1@mchsi.com> wrote in message
news:4101D9E9.74C10067@mchsi.com...
End of the Line for Hubble? Astronomers ponder space telescope's final
years With a space shuttle mission to repair and upgrade the Hubble
Space Telescope now canceled, astronomers are pondering how to best use
the flying observatory during its final years.
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20040724/bob9.asp
The "Very Large Telescope" (http://www.eso.org/projects/vlt/) in Chili is
scheduled to be completed next year. Who needs Hubble?
http://www.eso.org/projects/vlt/unit-tel/
"The useful wavelength range extends from the near UV up to 25 µm in
the infrared."
http://www.stsci.edu/hst/HST_overview/
"The Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) can study these
objects across a spectral range from the UV (115 nanometers) through
the visible red and the near-IR (1000 nanometers)."
....who needs hubble? Anyone who likes looking at the near-IR, visible,
and the UV spectrum.
I hear this argument so fucking much, its amazing.
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