2.4‐meter telescope could orbit in 1983
APR 01, 1977
DOI: 10.1063/1.3037493
If Congress and the President are willing, NASA plans to orbit the Space Telescope some time in the fourth quarter of 1983. The Space Telescope is a complete astronomical facility with a 2.4‐meter aperture optical telescope, signal detectors and a number of instruments. NASA is asking for $36 million in fiscal year 1978. The total program cost is expected to be $435 million. In anticipation of approval, NASA recently released an Announcement of Opportunity for proposing instruments. (Copies of this announcement can be obtained from the Project Scientist, C. Robert O’Dell, DS‐30, Marshall Space Flight Center, Ala. 35810.)
© 1977. American Institute of Physics
