Space Telescope

Cosmic Origins Spectrograph
... Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) is a science instrument that was installed on the Hubble Space Telescope during Servicing Mission 4 (STS-125) in May 2009 ... and built by the Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy (CASA-ARL) at the University of Colorado at Boulder and the Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corporation in Boulder ... axial instrument bay previously occupied by the Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement (COSTAR) instrument, and is intended to complement the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) that ...

List Of Astronomy Acronyms - N
... NASA – (organization) National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASDA – (organization) NAtional Space Development Agency NBS – (organization) National Bureau of Standards, an older ... Administration NOAO – (organization) National Optical Astronomy Observatories NODO – (telescope) NASA Orbital Debris Observatory, a now-defunct telescope ...

List Of Space Telescopes - Infrared and Submillimetre
... Artist's impression of the Herschel Space Observatory Artist's impression of IRAS Artist's impression of the James Webb Space Telescope The Spitzer Space Telescope Name Space Agency ...

List Of Astronomy Acronyms - M
... by the survey MACS (catalogue) Magellanic Catalogue of Stars MAGIC – (telescope) Major Atmospheric Gamma-ray Imaging Cherenkov telescope MAP – (telescope) Microwave-background Anisotropy ...

List Of Projects Of The European Space Agency - Current Projects Already Launched
... COROT — a space telescope for detecting rocky exoplanets larger than Earth ... A project led by the French space agency CNES ... Herschel Space Observatory — a space telescope observing in the far-infrared ...