Space Telescope - Eye on the universe

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Dec 1982

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Spaceflight, vol. 24, Dec. 1982, p. 434, 435, 437-441. Research supported by Fokker, European Space Agency, Perkin-Elmer Corp.,

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

Hubble Space Telescope, Space Shuttle Payloads, Spaceborne Astronomy, Cameras, Focal Plane Devices, Mirrors, Nasa Programs, Spacecraft Configurations, Spectrographs

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The NASA Space Telescope, which is to be put into orbit by the Space Shuttle in 1985, is described with attention to the design characteristics and fabrication processes of its optics and the five scientific instruments that will be mounted at the focal plane, behind the primary mirror. The primary mirror is fabricated from Ultra Low Expansion Glass, weighed 907 kg as a blank and took three and a half years to grind and polish to a deviation of no more than 0.000025 mm from the ideal surface. The instruments carried are the Wide Field Planetary Camera, which employs CCD detectors, the Faint Object Camera, the Faint Object Spectrograph, for use at visible and UV wavelengths, the UV High Resolution Spectrograph for 1100-2300 A wavelengths, and the High Speed Photometer for the study of time-dependent brightness fluctuations.

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