Kathryn Thornton: Correcting Hubble's Vision | Starmus Highlights

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The seasoned of 4 abstraction missions discusses challenges faced by nan Hubble Space Telescope and really quality ingenuity and teamwork made Hubble’s occurrence possible

20 Nov 2024

Kathryn Thornton, a renowned astronaut and physicist, recounts nan groundbreaking travel of nan first servicing ngo to nan Hubble Space Telescope successful 1993. Her talk dives into nan captious challenges faced by Hubble aft its motorboat successful 1990, peculiarly its inability to attraction owed to a flaw successful its superior mirror. She highlights nan singular ingenuity of nan scientists and engineers who devised a solution for nan flaw.

As 1 of NASA's 4 Great Observatories that let america to research nan beingness crossed nan electromagnetic spectrum, Hubble been instrumental successful expanding our knowing of nan universe. The historical repair ngo not only restored Hubble’s capabilities, but besides group a caller modular for in-orbit servicing missions and paved nan measurement for early explorations of nan universe’s deepest mysteries.

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