Giant Rockets Could Revolutionize Astronomy
For comparison, he points out that Hubble is only 2.4 meters wide.
Cool!!
The Space Telescope Science Institute’s Marc Postman has been planning a 16-meter segmented optical/ultraviolet telescope called ATLAST, short for Advanced Technology Large-Aperture Space Telescope. The science from an aperture its size would be spectacular.
ATLAST would be nearly 2000 times more sensitive than the Hubble Telescope.
Even Cooler!!!
Ares V flings shutters open wide on our view of the cosmos. It shakes off the shackles of mass and volume constraints from science missions
A heavy lift vehicle like Ares V would open numerous posibilities for space development and science.