International Space Camp

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What Makes Hubble So Great?

• Dr. Frank Summers
• Space Telescope Science Institute
• April 18, 2006

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A Space Telescope
Artists Conception WRONG
Photograph CORRECT
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Size of Hubbles Orbit
600 km above surface
Size of Earth
6400 km
100 km above surface
Size of Earths Atmosphere
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Some Hubble History

• 1946 Space telescope proposed
• 1962 National Academy of

Sciences recommends

• 1976 NASA
• ESA collaborate
• 1977 Congress funds project
• 1985 Construction complete
• 1986 Challenger accident

Lyman Spitzer
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Some Hubble History

• 1990 Launch
• 1993 Servicing Mission 1
• 1997 Servicing Mission 2
• 1997 Mission extended from 15 to 20 years
• 1999 Servicing Mission 3A
• 2002 Servicing Mission 3B
• 2003 Columbia accident
• 2004 No shuttle mission?
• 2005 Two gyro mode

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Hubbles Troubles

• Hubbles primary mirror ground to exact, but
  wrong, shape
• Could not achieve resolution specifications
• COSTAR corrective lenses
• Later instruments account for mirror design

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Hubbles Success

• More science than any other telescope
• More science per dollar than any other satellite
  mission
• More than 1/3 of NASAs press
• Oversubscribed at more than 101 ratio
• Household name recognition
• Pretty pictures on the front page

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Pillars in the Eagle Nebula
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Hubble Ultra-Deep Field
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What makes Hubble so great?

• Clear View located above blurring effects of
  atmosphere
• Serviceable a new instrument every few years
  keeps it current
• Public Observers get only one year of exclusive
  access

• Professional STScI provides excellent support
  to scientists

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