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This document discusses various space exploration technologies including manned space shuttles and the International Space Station as well as non-manned missions like the Hubble Space Telescope, satellites, and space probes. It provides background on early telescopes and astronomers like Galileo and Hans Lippershey. Details are given about the Hubble Space Telescope and images it has captured. Non-manned Mars rovers and early satellites like Sputnik and Soviet Venera missions to Venus are also summarized.

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Technology

This document discusses various space exploration technologies including manned space shuttles and the International Space Station as well as non-manned missions like the Hubble Space Telescope, satellites, and space probes. It provides background on early telescopes and astronomers like Galileo and Hans Lippershey. Details are given about the Hubble Space Telescope and images it has captured. Non-manned Mars rovers and early satellites like Sputnik and Soviet Venera missions to Venus are also summarized.

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TECHNOLOGY
Examples
2 Manned Missions

1. Space shuttles
Examples
3 Manned Missions

2. International space station


Examples
4 Non Manned Missions

1. Hubble Space Telescope


Examples
5 Non Manned Missions

2. Robots observers and satellites


Examples
Non Manned Missions
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2. Space probes
Examples
7

 1. Ground based
telescopes
Examples
8

 1. Ground based
telescopes
Examples
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 1. Ground based
telescopes
10 Examples

2. Spectroscopes
Examples
11

 3. Computers
1st Telescopes
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 1. 1608 Hans
Lippershey looked
through 2 lenses at
one time
1st Telescopes
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 He noticed objects
appeared much larger
than normal
14 1st Telescopes

1609 Galileo looked at the sky and


recorded what he saw
15 Galileo’s 1st telescope
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WHY WE NEED THE
Hubble Space Telescope
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 Ground based telescopes are affected by air


turbulence and light pollution
 Astronomers wanted an eye in the sky
 Earths atmosphere absorbs and scatters light
Hubble Space Telescope
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 1990 The Hubble


space telescope was
launched
Hubble Space Telescope
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 Circles Earths every 96 minutes at


18,000 mph
 375 miles above Earth
 Carries
 Infrared cameras
 Spectroscope
 Instruments to measure star information
 Communication antennas
Hubble Space Telescope
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 Can see 10 times better


than any ground based
telescope
 Receives routine space
services by space walking
astronauts
 Can see the
HOLLYWOOD sign
from Washington D.C.
Images from Hubble
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Images from Hubble
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Mars Exploration Rovers
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 Launched towards
Mars on June 10 and
July 7, 2003
 In search of answers
about the history of
water on Mars.
Mars Exploration Rovers
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 Primary goal is to
search for and
characterize a wide
range of rocks and
soils that hold clues to
past water activities
Sputnik 1
26

 Launched by the
Soviet Union on
October 4, 1957
 Helped to identify the
upper atmospheric
layer’s density
Sputnik 1
27

 Traveled at 18,000
miles per hour
 Took 96.2 minutes to
complete an orbit
 Transmitted radio
signals for 22 days
 Burned up on Jan. 4
1958 as it fell from
orbit
Venera
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 Soviet space program


 To Venus
 Late 1960’s, 1970’s
and early 1980’s
 13 successful missions
 Designed to either
orbit Venus, probe its
atmosphere or reach
its surface
Venera
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 Veneras 4,5,&6 gather


data on the
composition of the
atmosphere
 Largely made up of
Carbon-dioxide, with
little oxygen
 7 – 14 landed on
Venus
Venera
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 Venera 10 – 1st black


and white photograph
 Venera 13 – 1st color
photos
 Also measured surface
temperature, detected
lightning and analyzed
the Venusian soil,
finding rocks rare on
Earth
Veneras downfall
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 Future trips are


unlikely due to the
break up of the Soviet
Union in 1991
 Little money left for
the space program’s
funding

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