Camera, HST, Wide Field-Planetary, F/12.9 Sensor Head/Relay Optics, #1
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Object Details
- Manufacturer
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
- Summary
- This is one of four original CCD Sensor Head and Relay Optics assemblies from the f/12.9 wide-field mode of the first Wide-Field Planetary Camera (WFPC-1) flown on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) on its 24 April 1990 launch. It consists of a small Cassegrain telescope feeding a single 800x800 pixel CCD, and associated electronics. The WFPC-1 was removed from the HST during the servicing mission launched on 2 December 1993 that installed the correcting optics that compensate for the flawed primary mirror. One complete electro-optical channel from the wide field mode assembly, of which this element was a part, was transferred to NASM by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in September 1999.
- Credit Line
- Transferred from NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center.
- Inventory Number
- A19990213000
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- INSTRUMENTS-Scientific
- Materials
- Mixed metals, glass, electronics
- Dimensions
- 3-D: 40 × 23 × 17cm (15 3/4 × 9 1/16 × 6 11/16 in.)
- Country of Origin
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Air and Space Museum Collection
- National Air and Space Museum
- Record ID
- nasm_A19990213000
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv9976431af-a402-4383-a6aa-cfd3970a799f
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