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After 15 Years, The Humble Space Telescope Can No Longer Be Powered Up (twitter.com)
Long-time Slashdot reader frank249 brings some news from Diana Dragomir, a Hubble Fellow at the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research:
Diana Dragomir tweeted that the MOST Telescope "can no longer be powered up. It's had a long life, overshooting its planned one-year lifespan by a factor of 15!"
The MOST Space Telescope (which stands for Microvariability and Oscillation of Stars) was launched into space in 2003. It was the first Canadian scientific satellite in orbit in 33 years, and it is the first space telescope to be entirely designed and built in Canada. About the size and shape of a large suitcase, the satellite weighs only 54 kilograms and is equipped with an ultra high precision telescope that measures only 15 centimetres in diameter (thus the nickname "humble space telescope").
Despite its diminutive size, it is [was?] ten times more sensitive than the Hubble Space Telescope in detecting the minuscule variations in a star's luminosity caused by vibrations that shake its surface.
Interestingly, when the Most telescope first launched back in 2003 -- it was the same long-time Slashdot reader frank249 who submitted the story.
The MOST Space Telescope (which stands for Microvariability and Oscillation of Stars) was launched into space in 2003. It was the first Canadian scientific satellite in orbit in 33 years, and it is the first space telescope to be entirely designed and built in Canada. About the size and shape of a large suitcase, the satellite weighs only 54 kilograms and is equipped with an ultra high precision telescope that measures only 15 centimetres in diameter (thus the nickname "humble space telescope").
Despite its diminutive size, it is [was?] ten times more sensitive than the Hubble Space Telescope in detecting the minuscule variations in a star's luminosity caused by vibrations that shake its surface.
Interestingly, when the Most telescope first launched back in 2003 -- it was the same long-time Slashdot reader frank249 who submitted the story.
Stoopid monkees!
Does not match the text..
Hey man, sure I'm a multi-million dollar space telescope, but I put my pants on just like any of you ant-like idiots down there... yeah who are we kidding. Go fuck yourselves, you're destroying the planet. I'll be up here, burning to death also.
"Humble" space telescope eh?
If mine was that big, I wouldn't be humble.
Laws are rules for the court, but merely a bottom bar to hit for life. Think beyond laws in your actions always.
It is "MOST", not Hubble.
The headline is completely wrong
Can you not proofread a simple headline?
Fuck this place.
Canada is big on incompetence.
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I just heard some sad news on talk radio — Space telescope The Hubble
was found dead in its own Earth orbit this morning. There weren't any
more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss
it — even if you didn't enjoy the Hubble's work, there's no denying its
contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.
I see what you did there.
His ignorance covered the whole earth like a blanket, and there was hardly a hole in it anywhere. - Mark Twain
Not bad for an inexpensive microsatellite!
If we did they could bring it back to the Canadians.
I mean, we know what Opportunity said, right? So come on, tell us Humble Telescope's last words. Maybe "I was a good telescope guys, please don't leave me to freeze in the dark".
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
You click bait as hats. Ruined the whole discussion. Sell my website to someone who cares before you ruin it beyond repair. This might have been overlooked a few days ago.
Off to Soylent News for a few days. Maybe I'll not come back....
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The Humble Hubble MOST telescope? Just delete this incomprehensible mess.
Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
The Humble Hubble Hobbled Happily Homeward
Care killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.
The old Slashdot article says it was launched with a Russian vehicle called "Rockot", and people also thought that was a misspelling. So let's hear it for this telescope. In death as in life, it was so humble that it didn't even mind that Slashdot hated all the spelling and confusion that surrounded it.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
Boil them in oil, flay them alive, impale them on red-hot iron rods. I don't care. Just kill them in the most horrific way possible and then parade their carcasses as grisly standards to the merriment of us all.
Filter error: You can type more than that for your comment.
Who else read this immediately assuming /. misspelled the title, only figuring it out halfway through the blurb that they were discussing MOST, not Hubble?
-Styopa
so here's a well-deserved comment for you:
Knowledge is power; knowledge shared is power lost.