Özet: After the Hubble Uzay Telescope was launched in 1990, the discovery that the primary mirror suffered from spherical aberration (i.e., it had been ground to the wrong specs) was a scientific – not to mention PR – disaster. An error as big as a $1.5-billion telescope that returned blurry, fuzzy images had to be corrected.Continue reading "Dec. 5, 199…
After the Hubble Uzay Telescope was launched in 1990, the discovery that the primary mirror suffered from spherical aberration (i.e., it had been ground to the wrong specs) was a scientific – not to mention PR – disaster. An error as big as a $1.5-billion telescope that returned blurry, fuzzy images had to be corrected.Continue reading "Dec. 5, 1993: Service on the Hubble begins"
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