Hubble Origins Probe
The Hubble Origins Probe (HOP) was a proposal for an orbital telescope made in 2005 in response to the first cancellation of the fourth Hubble Space Telescope (HST) servicing mission.[1] It would have used an Atlas V rocket or similar launch vehicle to launch a much lighter, unaberrated mirror and optical telescope assembly, using the instruments that had already been built for SM4, along with a new wide-field imager. It would have cost between $700 million and $1 billion.[2]
Funding for the mission was never allocated; in February 2005, Sean O'Keefe, the NASA administrator who had cancelled SM4, resigned. Michael D. Griffin, NASA administrator after O'Keefe, reinstated the servicing missions,[3] making HOP redundant.
References
- ^ "Hubble Option" (Press release). Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. 2005. Archived from the original on 2005-03-06. Retrieved 30 June 2013.
- ^ Lawler, A. (2005). "ASTRONOMY: Hearing Highlights Dispute over Hubble's Future". Science. 307 (5711): 831. doi:10.1126/science.307.5711.831. PMID 15705817. S2CID 152395132.
- ^ Harwood, William (31 October 2006). "'Go' for Hubble servicing mission". CBS NEWS Space Place. Retrieved 1 July 2013.
External links
- Hubble Origins Probe
- Replacing Hubble by Francis Reddy on astronomy.com
- AIP Bulletin of Science Policy News article, "Witnesses Question Priority of a Hubble Servicing Mission" Archived 2006-10-04 at the Wayback Machine
- NASA Mission Pages: Service Mission 4 (SM4)
- Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Service Mission 4 (SM4) Crew Training video (archive.com)
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- Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS)
- Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS)
- Fine Guidance Sensor (FGS)
- Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS)
- Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS)
- Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3)
- Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement (COSTAR)
- Faint Object Camera (FOC)
- Faint Object Spectrograph (FOS)
- Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph (GHRS/HRS)
- High Speed Photometer (HSP)
- Wide Field and Planetary Camera (WFPC)
- Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2)
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- Hubble Deep Field (1995)
- Hubble Deep Field South (1998)
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- SWEEPS (2006)
- Mystic Mountain (2010)
- Hubble eXtreme Deep Field (2012)
- Hubble Legacy Field (2019)
- Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey
- Anniversary images
- List of deep fields
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- Hubble (2010 documentary)
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