HST - Astronomy's discovery machine
Journal Article
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· Sky and Telescope; (USA)
OSTI ID:6807231
Accounts are given of the development history, design features, and prospective uses of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST), whose launch by the Space Shuttle Discovery is scheduled for the Spring of 1990. The focal-plane instrument suite of the HST will encompass a wide-field and planetary camera, a faint-object camera, the Goddard High-Resolution Spectrograph, a faint-object spectrograph, a high-speed photometer, and fine-guidance sensors. Discovery will lift the HST to a 610-km circular orbit. Despite the additional preparations undertaken during the four-year delay in the HST's launch, the software controlling coordinated, simultaneous observations by more than one instrument has yet to be perfected.
- OSTI ID:
- 6807231
- Journal Information:
- Sky and Telescope; (USA), Journal Name: Sky and Telescope; (USA) Vol. 79; ISSN SKTEA; ISSN 0037-6604
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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