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Tarek Mamlook

HW#2:

Major space system

One other major space program that I looked at was the ASTRO-1 Program , this program was fairly successful in the sense that it provided some great observation from the multi-places it was assigned for. This space system was later returned because of some technical Difficulties it faced throughout the journey .

The main goal of it was to go around the shuttle space ,this ASTRO-1 was launched for about 10 days in early 1990 , there were many people involved in this program.

the idea of launching this program started after Comet Halley was no longer in position for detailed observation , so this program was mainly focusing on observation . the idea started in the early 1980s .ASTRO-1 had a lot of components and part it was consisting of three UV telescopes, an IPS and igloo containing the computer were integrated with the Spacelab pallet, after all the parts and components were ready and given the green light to start the mission , it was launched successfully.

In addition to all that the ASTRO-1 was carrying some payload like The Wisconsin Ultraviolet Photo-Polari meter Experiment,the Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope and the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope and one telescope of ray x, there was a lot of other pretty sophisticated equipment that really had a large role in making the trip a successful one .

After the ASTRO -1 and the fair success it had there was the talk of having another program to maybe follow some of the success the first one had , it almost had the same features and equipment that the first one had and was launched about 5 years after the first one and it needed some crew members like the first one to control some of the necessary thing which enabled ASTRO-2 to have a good , even a greater success than the second one . and like the first one it only lasted for about two weeks.

This program really attracted me in the sense that it was fairly current about 20 years from now and the whole mission to putting the pieces together to launching it , it only took around 10 years which is very remarkable .

There are a lot of other space system program that have been manufactured and launched From the time that the president of the united states has signaled to the importance of launching some systems to the space in the late 1960s and here we are after about 50 years and there has been many systems already and many more to come.