Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Oct 1981
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1981asaer..19...30f&link_type=abstract
Astronautics and Aeronautics, vol. 19, Oct. 1981, p. 30-37.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Hubble Space Telescope, Infrared Astronomy, Infrared Telescopes, Space Shuttle Payloads, X Ray Astrophysics Facility, Galactic Structure, Gamma Ray Astronomy, Heao 1, Quasars, Spacelab, Very Long Base Interferometry, X Ray Astronomy
Scientific paper
After giving a year-by-year account from 1970 to the present of advances in X-ray astronomy, very long baseline interferometry, solar observations, galactic structure and gamma-ray astronomy which were made possible by such space-based astronomy programs as the Uhuru satellite, Skylab, and HEAO-1 and -2, consideration is given to the theoretical questions that may be addressed by the Space Shuttle-launched Space Telescope (ST). The 2.4 m-diameter ST will extend the range of the Hale telescope by a factor of seven, bringing into view a volume of space 350 times greater and permitting the study of quasars and galaxies 50 times fainter than those now at the limit of detectability. After the ST's deployment in 1985, work may begin on a 30 m-diameter Very Large Space Telescope. Consideration is also given the Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility, the Satellite Infra-Red Telescope Facility, and the Transform Telescope Concept for X-ray astronomy.
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