The Space Show

2021.12.15 | Astronomy in Space: The Great Observatories

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On The Space Show for Wednesday, 15 December 2021:

  • NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) satellite with Tiffany Russell-Lockhart, a systems engineer at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama 
  • A primer on why astronomers need to see the non-visible wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum 
  • Dr Ellen Stofan, Smithsonian Under Secretary for Science and Research and Dr Thomas Zurbuchen, Associate Administrator at NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, discuss XPIE at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C.
  • The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST): A next-generation infra-red observatory is prepared for launch
  • James Webb Space Telescope by the Chromatics 
  • Revealing the universe with the JWST: a feature from the Goddard Space Flight Centre in Greenbelt, Maryland
  • The Operations Control Centre for the Hubble Space Telescope: a feature from the Goddard Space Flight Centre in Greenbelt, Maryland
  • The Chandra X-ray Observatory: Celebrating the 8th and 15th anniversaries of the telescope 
  • The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope 


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    The Space ShowBy Andrew Rennie for the Space Association of Australia