Hubble telescope

Now the Hubble telescope is a brilliant telescope that has provided the most beautiful pictures, including the picture on the home page.  It was launched into low orbit by a space shuttle in 1990, however it was supposed to be launched in 1983 but could not find enough funding and there were some technology malfunctions. It will be in service until 2018 where the James Webb telescope will replace it.

The Hubble space telescope

The Hubble telescope has been fundamental to Astrophysics like helping Astronomers to work out the universe is expanding and more recently, dark energy. Its light spectrum goes from near Infrared to visible to near ultraviolet. During its lifetime, it has had many parts fixed, replaced and added. It had also had many small spacecrafts dock at it as well. Overall, it has cost a whopping 2.5 billion dollars to build and maintain. It is the second most expensive object to be put in space, the first being the international space station which  costs a huge amount of 150 billion dollars!

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Voyager 2

Sorry I've been away... no excuses. Anyway I'm back and be sure to check out the new universe daily youtube channel. I will post the URL at the end.

Voyager 2 was an unmanned spacecraft that was sent into space in 1977. Its mission was to study the outer solar system and then interstellar space. It carries a gold disc should it ever be found by intelligent life and it contains photos of Earth and its lifeforms and a medley of the Earth containing many natural noises such as a whale song, a crying baby etc. Voyager 2 is now moving at 15,428 km/s. It was disbanded in 1989, however it still sends transmissions and scientists still locate where about it is.

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Pioneer 10 and 11

Pioneer 10 was launched in 1972 to go to Jupiter, while pioneer 11 was launched a year later in the same direction. They were both launched from a Atlas/centaur/TE364-4 launch vehicle.

Pioneer 10 was the first spacecraft to take pictures of Jupiter, along with other measurements such as magnetic field and radiation. It travels at 82,000 miles per hour. It was also the first spacecraft to go through the asteroid belt, which back then was an incredible achievement. Pioneer 10 was ended in 1997, but it surpassed Pluto's orbit, which means it could be outside the solar system!

Not much is known about pioneer 11, which is unfortunate, but it was shut down in 1995 when it broke.

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Voyager 1

This year, Voyager 1 was the first man-made space craft to exit the solar system after 36 years of travelling at sixty five thousand kilometers per second!. It was launched in September 1977 and has taken photographs of the outer planets, many of which we see today. These include, the first photo of Neptune and Uranus.

Voyager 1 is equipped with a gold plate, with a phonograph, explaining the diversity of life on Earth.

This is the new topic-satellites and voyagers. Check in tomorrow for pioneer 10 and 11. Also string theory will come later on, its just really hard to get a grasp of.