What rocket launched the Hubble Space Telescope?
Space Shuttle mission STS-31
What shuttle deployed Hubble?
space shuttle Discovery
How much more powerful is the James Webb Telescope?
The James Webb Telescope is powerful. The Webb is the successor to Hubble, and it’s 100 times more powerful. Webb also has a much bigger mirror than Hubble, explains the Webb telescope site: “This larger light-collecting area means that Webb can peer farther back into time than Hubble is capable of doing.
What rocket will launch James Webb?
Arianespace Ariane 5 rocket
What will the James Webb telescope be looking for?
The James Webb Space Telescope will find the first galaxies that formed in the early universe and peer through dusty clouds to see stars forming planetary systems.
Why is James Webb at L2?
The answer is to put Webb in an orbit around the L2 point. Normally, an object circling the Sun further out than the Earth would take more than one year to complete its orbit. However, the balance of gravitational pull at the L2 point means that Webb will keep up with the Earth as it goes around the Sun.
Will James Webb orbit the sun?
The James Webb Space Telescope will not be in orbit around the Earth, like the Hubble Space Telescope is – it will actually orbit the Sun, 1.5 million kilometers (1 million miles) away from the Earth at what is called the second Lagrange point or L2.
How far away is L2 from Earth?
about 930,000 miles
How many Lagrangian points are there?
five Lagrange points
Where is Voyager 1 now?
NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft is currently over 14.1 billion miles from Earth. It’s moving at a speed of approximately 38,000 miles per hour and not long ago passed through our solar system’s boundary with interstellar space.
Is Voyager 1 still sending pictures?
After Voyager 1 took its last image (the “Solar System Family Portrait” in 1990), the cameras were turned off to save power and memory for the instruments expected to detect the new charged particle environment of interstellar space. Mission managers removed the software from both spacecraft that controls the camera.
How far is Voyager in light years?
1.6 light-years
How many mph is Warp 1?
The spaceship starts out at warp 1 and eventually accelerates to warp 9.9, or about 2,083 times light speed. Warp 1, or light speed, makes the Enterprise look like it’s at a standstill over the sun.