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    Origins Space Telescope (Origins) is a concept study for a far-infrared survey space telescope mission. A preliminary concept in pre-formulation, it was...
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    The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a space telescope designed to conduct infrared astronomy. Its high-resolution and high-sensitivity instruments...
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    to 2013, and was the largest infrared telescope ever launched until the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope in 2021. Herschel carries a 3.5-metre...
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    The Hubble Space Telescope (often referred to as HST or Hubble) is a space telescope that was launched into low Earth orbit in 1990 and remains in operation...
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  • launch in the 2030s, NASA is evaluating four possible designs: the Origins Space Telescope, Lynx X-ray Observatory, Habitable Exoplanets Observatory (HabEx)...
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    Surveyor, commonly known as LUVOIR (/luːˈvwɑːr/), is a multi-wavelength space telescope concept being developed by NASA under the leadership of a Science and...
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  • format OST Family (organic solute transporter) of genes Origins Space Telescope, a space telescope mission Open Source Threat, any software demonstrating...
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    Pillars of Creation (category Hubble Space Telescope images)
    Pillars of Creation is a photograph taken by the Hubble Space Telescope of elephant trunks of interstellar gas and dust in the Eagle Nebula, in the Serpens...
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    Observatories Origins Deep Survey consists of optical and near-infrared imaging taken with the Advanced Camera for Surveys on the Hubble Space Telescope, the Very...
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    Great Observatories program (category Spitzer Space Telescope)
    Great Observatories satellites are four large, powerful space-based astronomical telescopes launched between 1990 and 2003. They were built with different...
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    The Kepler space telescope is a defunct space telescope launched by NASA in 2009 to discover Earth-sized planets orbiting other stars. Named after astronomer...
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    the Soviet Union, to achieve superior spaceflight capability. It had its origins in the ballistic missile-based nuclear arms race between the two nations...
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  • The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) is the science operations center for the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), science operations and mission operations...
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    Magellan Telescope is expected to have a resolving power 10 times that of the Hubble Space Telescope and four times that of the James Webb Space Telescope, although...
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    The Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) is a spectrograph, also with a camera mode, installed on the Hubble Space Telescope. Aerospace engineer...
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    X-ray Astrophysics Facility (AXAF), is a Flagship-class space telescope launched aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia during STS-93 by NASA on July 23, 1999...
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    deep space missions cost". arstechnica.com. Archived from the original on 17 December 2018. Retrieved 16 December 2018. "Origins Space Telescope Mission...
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    Habitable Exoplanets Observatory (category Space telescopes)
    Space Telescope. They are the Habitable Exoplanet Observatory (HabEx), Large Ultraviolet Optical Infrared Surveyor (LUVOIR), Origins Space Telescope, and...
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    radio telescope is a specialized antenna and radio receiver used to detect radio waves from astronomical radio sources in the sky. Radio telescopes are...
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    The Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) is a science instrument that was installed on the Hubble Space Telescope during Servicing Mission 4 (STS-125) in...
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  • working on an X-ray space telescope with Hong Kong University, and signed a contract to build an optical telescope. Origin Space launched the Lobster...
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    SAFIR (category Space telescopes)
    Webb Space Telescope was also explored. Far-infrared astronomy Infrared astronomy List of proposed space observatories Origins Space Telescope SPICA...
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    The history of the telescope can be traced to before the invention of the earliest known telescope, which appeared in 1608 in the Netherlands, when a...
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    The Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement (COSTAR) is an optical correction instrument designed and built by NASA. It was created to correct...
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    Lissajous orbit around the Sun–Earth L2 Lagrangian point. The Gaia space telescope has its roots in ESA's Hipparcos mission (1989–1993). Its mission was...
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    Retrieved 23 October 2013. "Last command sent to ESA's Planck space telescope". European Space Agency. 23 October 2013. Retrieved 23 October 2013. "A window...
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    astrophysics topics, such as the Big Bang, through the James Webb Space Telescope, the Great Observatories and associated programs. The Launch Services...
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    (Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission 4), was the fifth and final Space Shuttle mission to the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). The launch of the Space Shuttle...
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  • NASA's Origins program is a decades-long study addressing the origins of the universe, various astronomical bodies, and life. The Origins program was started...
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  • Origins Probe (HOP) was a proposal for an orbital telescope made in 2005 in response to the first cancellation of the fourth Hubble Space Telescope (HST)...
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