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The James Webb Space Telescope is a planned space infrared observatory, intended to ultimately replace the Hubble Space Telescope. NASA, the European Space Agency, and the Canadian Space Agency are all working on the Webb telescope... [more]
The James Webb Space Telescope is a planned space infrared observatory, intended to ultimately replace the Hubble Space Telescope. NASA, the European Space Agency, and the Canadian Space Agency are all working on the Webb telescope project. The telescope is named after NASA's second administrator, James E. Webb.
Unfortunately the telescope won't be launched into orbit until at the soonest 2013.
October 11, 2008
SPACE.com - NASA engineers
are finalizing plans to resuscitate the ailing Hubble Space Telescope, which has
been unable to beam home its trademark iconic images of the universe for weeks
due to equipment failure.
Tariq Malik Senior Editor SPACE.com
NASA engineers
are finalizing plans to resuscitate the ailing Hubble Space Telescope, which has
been unable to beam home its trademark iconic images of the universe for weeks
due to equipment failure.
Hubble
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During a news conference on Monday, NASA told reporters that it is delaying its mission to the Hubble Space Telescope until next year because of a serious breakdown of the observatory in orbit.
The malfunctioning system is Hubble's Control Unit/Science Data Formatter - Side A. Shortly after 8 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 27, the telescope's spacecraft computer issued commands to safe the payload computer and science instruments when errors were detected within the Science Data Formatter. An...
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Launched in to orbit by the Space Shuttle Discovery 18 years ago, the Hubble Space Telescope has made more than 100,000 orbits of planet Earth, taking some of our most iconic space images.
During its 100,000th orbit, it pointed itself towards a small portion of a nebula near star cluster NGC 2074 in the Large Magellenic Cloud (left), and took the accompanying image on the 10th of August. Lying approximately 170,000 light-years away from the Tarantula nebula, the region is a hotbed of...
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While observing stars in our own Milky Way galaxy with the Hubble Space in an ongoing study that has spanned several years, astronomers stumbled upon a distant elliptical galaxy 1.2 billion light years away packed with clusters of stars too dim for most telescopes to see. Oddly, the light from some of these clusters are not young and blue as expected, but rather, older and redder -an observation Jason Kalirai of the University of California, Santa Cruz, and colleagues are wrestling to...
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Astronomers at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico joined a project called
Electronic Very Long Baseline Interferometry (e-VLBI), which can make
temporary radio telescopes that rival the size of the Earth, spanning North America, South America, Europe and Africa.The e-VLBI's size gives it 10 times the resolution of the Hubble
Space Telescope, allowing the array to image objects - like the bright
'afterglow' formed when a high-speed jet of matter from a gamma-ray
burst slams into its...
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NASA engineers are finalizing plans to resuscitate the ailing Hubble Space Telescope, which has been unable to beam home its trademark iconic images of the universe for weeks due to equipment failure.
- Hubble Space Telescope Ready for Its Close-up (livescience.com)
- Hubble Space Telescope Image: Galaxy Silhouettes (spaceref.com)
- Repair of popular Hubble space telescope delayed (rss.topix.net)
The nine-year contract extension marks more than 25 years of continuous CSC support for the program.
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CSC announced today it will continue to support NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Program under a new agreement with the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Inc.
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The Hubble Space Telescope gleams after a servicing mission in 2002.
The Hubble Space Telescope's handlers are weighing a plan to turn on a never-used backup system to restore communications as early as next week. If it works, the world's favorite orbiting observatory could be back...
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CSC has won a $50 million contract from the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Inc., which runs NASA’s Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore. (CSC)
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NASA will host a media teleconference at 12:30 p.m. EDT, Tuesday, Oct. 14, to brief reporters about the status of efforts to revive the data handling unit that failed on the Hubble Space Telescope in late-September.
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The U.S. space agency says it plans to display a full-sized model of the James Webb Space Telescope at the Deutsches Museum in Munich, Germany.
- The James Webb Space Telescope Model Is Flying to Germany (news.google.com)
Fixing unresolved anomalies on a spare part intended to be sent up to Hubble could further delay a shuttle servicing mission to the telescope Problems with a spare part for the Hubble Space Telescope - which ...
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NASA is in the midst of a readiness review today that ultimately is aimed at restarting Hubble Space Telescope science observations by the end of next week. ...
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