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On this website you can learn about many spacecrafts humanity created. From huge stations like the ISS to smaller telescopes and satellites. Each app one the left provides some information and photos from the spacecfraft (which you can rate from 1 to 5 stars!). You can write your toughts and ideas on the Spacecraft Ideas app. Please double click to open.

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James Webb Space Telescope

Basic information:
1. Built between 2007 - 2021 by Northrop Grumman, Ball Aerospace & Technologies
2. Insertion into orbit: 25.12.2021, 1:20 PM CET
3. Conducts infrared observations

Wait, infrared observations? What does it mean??????
Let's look at how does James Webb Space Telescope look:

Do you see the gold, honey-like thing? That's Webbs mirror. It has a gold coating to provide infrared reflectivity. The mirror is 6.5-meter-diameter (21-foot) and it's made up of 18 separate hexagonal mirrors.

The infrared is really usefull for several reasons:
- High-redshift (very early and distant) objects have their visible emissions shifted into the infrared, and therefore their light can be observed only via infrared astronomy
- Infrared light passes more easily through dust clouds than visible light
- Colder objects such as debris disks and planets emit most strongly in the infrared

Mission goals
1. To search for light from the first stars and galaxies that formed in the universe after the Big Bang
2. To study galaxy formation and evolution
3. To understand star formation and planet formation
4. To study planetary systems and the origins of life

Okay, I think that's enough information. If you want to learn more check this wikipedia site or this NASA page about this mission.

Let's move on to the picturesque photos from James Webb Space Telescope!!! My fav part!
You can rate them from 1⭐ to 5⭐











Sources:
1. Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Webb_Space_Telescope

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Hubble Space Telescope

Basic information:
1. Launch date: April 24 1990, 12:33:51 UTC
2. Named after astronomer Edwin Hubble
3. Built in the 1970s by NASA and ESA

The HST is one of the few telescopes that observes in ultraviolet light.
Besides ultraviolet, his main five instruments conduct observations in visible, and near-infrared regions of the electromagnetic spectrum

Hubble is the only space telescope designed to be maintained in space by astronauts. There were five Space Shuttle missions that repaired and upgraded the telescope. The fifth mission was canceled due to Columbia Disaster. Fortunately, NASA administrator Michael D. Griffin approved it, and the mission completed successfully in 2009.

Astronaut Kathryn Thornton works on Hubble during Servicing Mission 1
Credits: NASA


Let's look at how does Hubble Space Telescope look:

Hubble accommodates five science instruments at a given time (and FGS). Since the final mission in 2009 Hubble has installed:
- Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS, since 2002)
- Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS, since 2009)
- Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS, since 1997, with a break between 2004-2009)
- Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3, since 2009) yes, there were WFC2 and WFC
- Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS, since 1997, hibernating since 2008)
And the FGS: Fine Guidance Sensors, which are mainly used for aiming the telescope. Since the beginning of the mission. That's and og!

Some of the previous instruments are displayed in the museums. If you want to know more about them check this wikipedia list of HST instruments

Okay, I think that's enough information. If you want to learn more check this wikipedia site or this NASA page about this mission.

Let's move on to the picturesque photos from Hubble Space Telescope!!! My fav part!
You can rate them from 1⭐ to 5⭐



















Sources:
1. Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Space_Telescope
2. NASA - Hubble Space Telescope:
https://science.nasa.gov/mission/hubble/
3. NASA - what did Hubble see on your birthday?:
https://science.nasa.gov/mission/hubble/multimedia/what-did-hubble-see-on-your-birthday/

Hubble Space Telescope

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