... mirror, and the three fine guidance sensors was awarded to Perkins-Elmer. The HST project was designed and built to serve a different purpose for NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) than the two previous satellites. In their effort to benefit from the international astronomical researches and studies ... device uses two-dimensional detectors operating from the ultraviolet to the near infrared. First-order gratings cover the full spectral range and are designed for spatially resolved spectroscopy using a long slit. Echelle gratings, which are only available in the ultraviolet, are de...

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... , we have had more technological advances than the Industrial Revolution. The Space Race has affected our everyday lives; we use the same technology that the astronauts used during their missions for example digital clocks (Dismukes http://spaceflight.nasa.gov). Many industries have benefited, communication companies, industrial manufacturers, and the medical field. As a result of this technological revolution, the world has ... , couldn't build a plane to compete with he one that England and France and Germany were flying in the Great War. So the government created the N.A.C.A. and provi...

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... for centuries, from Isaac Newton discovering gravity, to today in contemporary time where we are successfully teleporting photons into space. Through the years, physicists have made technological advances in all aspects of physics, from quantum physics and astrophysics to quantum mechanical physics. One example would be from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory where they are currently building a satellite that will not only measure ... the weather's temperature, but also how the behavior of the oceans itself affects the weather, and to analyze a possible trend in the earth's temperature ove...

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