BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | 'Silver sensation' seeks cold cosmos

[dracodraconis]

BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | 'Silver sensation' seeks cold cosmos

Next week the ESA will put the largest space telescope, the 3.5 metre Herschel Telescope, into orbit at Lagrance point 2, 1.5 million kilometres from earth. Also being launched on the same mission is the Planck telescope that views the sky in the microwave wavelength.

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[ancalagon-tb.livejournal.com]

Oooh, pretty cool.

It's a shame it's only going to last a few years because of the helium though... I think that a good "space probe" (whatever the type) should be able to last a long time - ie you build it to last the mission time, but with no almost "built in" failure features. Like the Mars Rovers? Now that's science!

[dracodraconis.livejournal.com]

And unlike the Hubble that just keeps going until the hardware breaks down. Or Voyager that just keeps going.