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- Title
Starlab and the Beginnings of Space Astronomy in Canada.
- Authors
Gainor, Christopher
- Abstract
As the field of space-based astronomy opened up in the 1970s, Canadian astronomers began to think about how they could use these new tools to advance their research. While discussions were stimulated when work began on the Hubble Space Telescope, a proposal was made in the late 1970s to orbit an ultraviolet survey telescope, the Canadian Space Telescope. The CST was put aside starting in 1980 in favour of a proposal for Canadians to join U.S. and Australian astronomers in placing a similar instrument along with a spectrograph on board Starlab, which would fly in the Space Shuttle payload bay and later on a space platform that would be deployed and retrieved by the Shuttle. The Starlab project came to an end in 1984 without ever leaving the drawing board when Canada withdrew. This paper examines Canada's early work in space astronomy and the problems all three partners in Starlab faced in their attempt to bring the concept to fruition.
- Subjects
CANADA; SPACE astronomy; HUBBLE Space Telescope (Spacecraft); SPACE telescopes; SPACE shuttles; GEODETIC astronomy; ASTRONOMERS; SPECTROGRAPHS
- Publication
Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, 2020, Vol 114, Issue 6, p266
- ISSN
0035-872X
- Publication type
Article