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Taking The Lid Off Kepler
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 08, 2009 This artist's animation illustrates how the dust cover on NASA's Kepler telescope will be ejected. Engineers will send a command up to the space telescope to pass an electrical current through a "burn wire." The burn wire will break and a latch holding the cover closed will be released. The spring-loaded cover will swing open on a fly-away hinge, before drifting away from the spacecraft and entering its own orbit around the sun. (Kepler is also orbiting the sun in what's called an Earth-trailing orbit.) With the cover off, starlight will enter Kepler's science instrument, the photometer, and be imaged onto its focal plane. Engineers will continue to calibrate the instrument using images of stars for another several weeks, after which science observations will begin. Share This Article With Planet Earth
Related Links Kepler Space Telescope News and Technology at Skynightly.com
10 Million Euro For RadioNet FP7
Paris, France (SPX) Mar 27, 2009The European radio astronomy program, RadioNet, has been awarded 10 Million Euro by the European Commission under the Seventh European Framework Program (FP7). RadioNet is an EC integrating activity that brings together all the major radio observatories in Europe, covering the frequency range of 10 Mhz to 1 Thz. |
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