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NASA To Decide Whether To Repair Hubble
UPI Correspondent Washington (UPI) Oct 27, 2006 NASA Administrator Michael Griffin plans to announce next week whether the U.S. space agency will send a space shuttle to repair the Hubble telescope. If the go-head is given, astronauts would fix the telescope's batteries and stabilizing gyroscopes as well as add new instruments, USA Today said Friday. Without the repairs, Hubble's batteries could fail as soon as 2008 and the gyroscopes a year later, Matt Mountain, of the Space Telescope Science Institute, told USA Today. The Baltimore-based facility manages Hubble's science operations. The repairs, Mountain says, "would make it a brand new observatory," USA Today said. The new equipment would allow Hubble to capture better views of the earliest galaxies and planets orbiting nearby stars, USA Today said. Shuttle astronauts have repaired Hubble four times since it launched in 1990, USA Today said.
Source: United Press International Related Links Stellar Chemistry, The Universe And All Within It
NASA Approves Construction Of Satellite To Scan Nearest Stars And Brightest Galaxies
Pasadena CA (SPX) Oct 20, 2006After eight years of study, NASA has approved the construction of an unmanned satellite that will scan the entire sky in infrared light to reveal nearby cool stars, planetary "construction zones" and the brightest galaxies in the universe. Launch of the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) - the second phase of the WISE mission - is scheduled for late 2009. The satellite will orbit the Earth and operate for at least seven months, with data expected a few times a day. |
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