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Go read _The Hubble Wars_ and all this schmaltz about a top secret project will dissolve in anger. They knew a lot of things that could have made Hubble much m
by kabdib 15y ago
Go read _The Hubble Wars_ and all this schmaltz about a top secret project will dissolve in anger.
They knew a lot of things that could have made Hubble much more of a success; the "wiggle" of the solar panel booms, the radiation issues of the various magnetic anomolies that Hubble would have to fly through.
They didn't say anything.
Secrets. Feh.
- quanticle 15y agoNot only that. Perkin-Elmer was given the contract for grinding the primary mirror on the Hubble. Yes, the same primary mirror that was misground and required a multimillion dollar Shuttle mission to go fix with a pair of "eyeglasses" (secondary mirrors). The reason for the screw-up? The same sort of time pressure that these engineers were working under. Working under time pressure like this isn't heroism. It's stupidity, and leads to screw-ups like Hubble. EDIT: The Hubble mirror was even polished at the same Danbury plant where these spy satellite mirrors were being assembled. I wonder if one of the reasons for the Hubble mirror being misshapen was because personell were being pulled to work on CIA contracts?