Location
Howard Johnson Plaza-Hotel, Atlantis/ Discovery Rooms
Start Date
24-4-1996 2:00 PM
End Date
24-4-1996 5:00 PM
Description
The Hubble Space Telescope, HST, is a unique platform for new science. Each mission to HST is a complex dance of engineering, astronautics, and science that brings new scientific opportunities to the telescope. Through new instruments, new discoveries and new insights, HST’s role as the premier space astronomical instrument will continue into the next millennium. The 1997 maintenance mission will give HST infrared eyes to peer far back in time and space as well as into the birth places of galaxies, stars and planets. It will multiply HST’s spectroscopic grasp many fold to increase our knowledge of distant quasars and nearby planets. In many respects HST creates its own future through its revelations about our universe. This talk is a small selection of what lies ahead.
Paper Session II-A - The Future of Hubble Space Telescope Science
Howard Johnson Plaza-Hotel, Atlantis/ Discovery Rooms
The Hubble Space Telescope, HST, is a unique platform for new science. Each mission to HST is a complex dance of engineering, astronautics, and science that brings new scientific opportunities to the telescope. Through new instruments, new discoveries and new insights, HST’s role as the premier space astronomical instrument will continue into the next millennium. The 1997 maintenance mission will give HST infrared eyes to peer far back in time and space as well as into the birth places of galaxies, stars and planets. It will multiply HST’s spectroscopic grasp many fold to increase our knowledge of distant quasars and nearby planets. In many respects HST creates its own future through its revelations about our universe. This talk is a small selection of what lies ahead.
Comments
Planetary Probes/ Fly-Bys/ Hubble Servicing
Session Chairman: Frank Cepollina, Project Manager for Hubble Space Telescope, NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center
Session Organizer: Marilou Richardson