Hubble Space Telescope

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Hubble Space Telescope

• Mr. Ayers
• Mr. Peterson

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Destination of the Mission

• Hubble is a Telescope located in space
• It orbits above the earth at a height of
  approximately 375 miles
• The united states is the only country involved in
  servicing Hubble

Image of Hubble in space.
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Time Line of Mission
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Statement of the Mission Goals

• The Launch Vehicle for Hubble was the Space
  Shuttle

• Hubble Mission Statement was made in 1977
• The first Goal for Hubble is to determine the
  composition, physical characteristics, of
  celestial objects and what causes them to change.

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Statement of the Mission Goals

• Hubble's second goal was to find out the
  processes which occur in and between astronomical
  objects.
• Hubbles Third goal was to determine if the laws
  of physics are universal in the space-time
  continuum

• Sketch of the Hubble space telescope,

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Statement of the Mission Goals

• Hubbles fourth goal was to determine the history
  and evolution of the universe.

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Results of the Mission

• Every day, Hubble Space Telescope beams to the
  ground between 10 and 15 gigabytes of new data
  for processing and distribution to the
  astronomers.
• How quickly Hubble can gather and transmit data
  has grown enormously since the 1990, due to the
  installation of more powerful scientific
  instruments.

Hubble's Images Showing Neptune's Weather
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Results of the Mission
Photograph from Hubble of a Distant Supernova.

• As of June 30, 2006, the Hubble Data Archive
  contains over 790,000 scientific and calibration
  observations, or 28979.2 gigabytes of data

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Results of the Mission

• Hubble Space Telescope has provided data for
  nearly 5,400 research papers in the refereed
  scientific literature 651 of these papersan
  all-time highcame in 2005.

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Results of the Mission

• The Hubble Data Archive is extremely popular with
  astronomers, and the retrieval rate of archived
  data exceeds the daily ingest rate by factors of
  4-5.

Hubble Captures Birth of a Star
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Estimated Cost of the Mission

• Initially Hubble cost 1.5 billion to build and
  put into orbit.
• Hubble's total budget in one year is in the range
  230-250 million. That money does more than
  simply keep Hubble operating on a daily basis. In
  addition to operational costs, the total dollar
  figure includes funds for scientific data
  analysis, as well as for the development of
  future hardware and its associated software.
• The concept of servicing Hubble to upgrade its
  instruments rather than launching a whole new
  telescope has saved billions of dollars.

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Problems Emergencies, disasters associated with
the mission
COSTAR Scientist working on Hubble's Corrective
lens.

• In 1990 soon after deployment scientist
  discovered that Hubbles main mirror was
  improperly focused.

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Problems Emergencies, disasters associated with
the mission

• Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial
  Replacement (COSTAR) was attached to Hubble in
  1993.
• Known as the "eyeglasses for Hubble," COSTAR
  restored the imaging capabilities and corrected
  the telescope's imaging capabilities to near the
  theoretical limit.

Hubble Up Close
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Problems Emergencies, disasters associated with
the mission

• The deployment of Hubble only came about after
  ground controllers overcame a problem in
  unfurling the telescope's solar panels, needed to
  supply power.

Failed to unfold!
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Bibliography

• http//www.astr.ua.edu/keel/telescopes/hst.html
• http//hubble.nasa.gov/overview/faq.php
• http//nicmosis.as.arizona.edu8000/GRAPHIC_HST.GI
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• http//particleadventure.org/particleadventure/fra
  meless/chart_cutouts/universe_original.jpg
• http//www.spacetelescope.org/videos/html/mpeg/180
  px/hst15_chapter02.html