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Goodrich Fine Guidance Sensor To Fly On Next Hubble Mission
Charlotte NC (SPX) Nov 28, 2006 NASA's recent decision to approve an additional servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope involves Goodrich Corporation. Goodrich will provide an additional highly accurate, sophisticated optical system -- the fine guidance sensor -- to the Hubble program. According to Chris Holmes, Vice President and General Manager for Goodrich's Electro-Optical Systems team, "At Goodrich we were very pleased to learn of NASA's decision to extend the Hubble mission. An additional servicing mission will significantly enhance the telescope's science capabilities and should extend its service life to 2013 or beyond. Our team is currently in the process of upgrading a fine guidance sensor for this servicing mission. This fine guidance sensor will be the third upgrade and it will replace one of the units currently on the telescope. The other two units were installed on previous servicing missions." The Hubble's original fine guidance sensors and optical telescope assembly were also produced by the company's Electro-Optical Systems team, based in Danbury, CT. The fine guidance sensors are a critical part of the telescope's pointing system and are responsible for keeping the telescope accurately pointed for the long periods of time needed to produce images of distant stars and galaxies. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links Goodrich All about the technology of space and more Space Telescope News and Technology at Skynightly.com
VLT Image Of Starburst Galaxy NGC 1313
Garching, Germany (SPX) Nov 27, 2006The captivating appearance of this image of the starburst galaxy NGC 1313, taken with the FORS instrument at ESO's Very Large Telescope, belies its inner turmoil. The dense clustering of bright stars and gas in its arms, a sign of an ongoing boom of star births, shows a mere glimpse of the rough times it has seen. Probing ever deeper into the heart of the galaxy, astronomers have revealed many enigmas that continue to defy our understanding. |
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