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- From: roelle@uars_mag.jhuapl.edu (Curtis Roelle)
- Subject: Re: COSTAR
- Message-ID: <roelle.722012838@uars_mag>
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- Organization: Johns Hopkins University
- Date: 17 Nov 92 15:07:18 GMT
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- Optical improvements introduced by COSTAR should satisfy pent-up
- expectations of HST. Although I have seen the COSTAR mockup at the
- STScI and viewed Dana Berry's video, the instrument, like HST itself,
- appears to be quite complicated.
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- Has an assessment of potential risks has been prepared and reviewed?
- What could go wrong? Where are the primary risk areas? e.g. failure
- to grapple the telescope, failure to extract the module COSTAR
- replaces, engineering uncertainties that might lead to the new optical
- path missing the aperture opening, etc.
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- My personal wishes for HST are for success. Just in case I want to be
- prepared for the worst, and hear the bad news now.
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- Curt
- roelle@sigi.jhuapl.edu
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