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Desktop Space Exploration

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2018

M. Martin-Smith  and
R. Buckland
M. Martin-Smith
Affiliation:
General Practitioner, Hull, UK
R. Buckland
Affiliation:
Department of Design and Innovation, The Open University, UK

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The Humble Space Telescope project aims to launch a small space telescope for educational and recreational purposes, in time for the New Millennium.

The arrival of the 3rd Millennium, accompanied in the United Kingdom by a Millennium Commission distributing 250 million per year of National Lottery funds for good causes and imaginative projects which would otherwise require direct funding by the taxpayer, provides a unique opportunity to design, build and operate a small but capable version of the pioneering Hubble Space Telescope.

In July 1994, a leading British newspaper with a long history of covering developments in science, launched a competition for members of the public to propose science projects to be funded by the Millennium Commission.

References

1.The European Association for Astronomy Education web site is at: http://www.eso.org/astronomyonline/ Google Scholar
2.The UK Pupil Researcher Initiatives web site is at: http://www.shu.ac.uk/schools/sci/pri/index.htm Google Scholar
3.A summary of Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd missions can be found at: http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/EE/CSER/UOSAT/missions/ Google Scholar
4.Desktop Space Exploration, Dr. Michael Martin-Smith and Rodney Buckland, IAF-96-Q.1.08, presented at the 47th International Astronautical Congress, Beijing, China in October 1996.Google Scholar