The paper describes NASA's Space Telescope (ST) adapted to Shuttle capabilities for launch and retrieval which utilizes the full Shuttle cargo bay space available for payloads and can be returned to the ground for refurbishment. Its objective is to maximize ST's productive lifetime, to probe the universe, and to analyze light from energy sources which cannot be studied by ground-based telescopes. The Shuttle orbiting lifetime will be extended to at least five years, and scientific instruments or failed spacecraft components will be replaced on-orbit. The ST will be returned to earth for major overhauls, refurbished, and relaunched. In summary, the Shuttle will allow space astronomy to be accomplished in the usual manner - by observing, adjusting, changing detectors, and reobserving. The support systems module, the optical telescope assembly, scientific instruments, including the wide field/planetary camera, the faint object spectrograph and the high speed photometer are described.
Space telescope, a long-life free flyer
Annual Meeting ; 1979 ; Los Angeles, CA
1979-10-01
Conference paper
No indication
English
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