Huh ? at what frequency regimes ? what about X-rays ? IR ? UV ?
I think you can build much cheaper single purpose satelites for that.
saying such a large project, with published scientific results, is "just PR" with no references to back up your claim seems like slander to me.
Ok, ok.. maybe I was a little harsh on the HST, but I think the fact remains that ways a really, really expensive and a lot of atronomers would rather have had that money to do other things. Then again everybody likes his own project the best...;)
I mean, look at the Hubble Space Telescope. If it weren't for the shuttle, the whole thing would've been just another piece of floating space junk.
The HST was a PR thing anyway, for the same money they could of build several ground based telescopes that made the same nice pictures. I wouldn't be amazed if somebody told me they fitted the broken mirror on purpose so they could go and fix it with the shuttle...
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I think you can build much cheaper single purpose satelites for that.
saying such a large project, with published scientific results, is "just PR" with no references to back up your claim seems like slander to me. Ok, ok.. maybe I was a little harsh on the HST, but I think the fact remains that ways a really, really expensive and a lot of atronomers would rather have had that money to do other things. Then again everybody likes his own project the best... ;)
The HST was a PR thing anyway, for the same money they could of build several ground based telescopes that made the same nice pictures. I wouldn't be amazed if somebody told me they fitted the broken mirror on purpose so they could go and fix it with the shuttle...