Timeline for How are space telescopes stabilised to a perfect standstill?
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| May 7, 2019 at 8:20 | comment | added | uhoh | @Hobbes please feel free to edit this further or add an additional answer! The OP was enthusiastic about receiving an answer and so I did the best that I could, but it's quite a deep topic and I'm not familliar with many of the specifics. | |
| May 7, 2019 at 7:32 | comment | added | Hobbes | As an example of vibrations causing trouble: on the Hubble, the first set of solar panels would produce noticeable vibrations as they went through heating/cooling cycles on each orbit. The panels were replaced on one of the service missions. | |
| May 7, 2019 at 0:22 | comment | added | uhoh | @Marko36 thanks, I hope that it helps some. Feel free to leave a comment if you need something clarified or explained further, or ask more questions if you want to explore something in more detail. In Stack Exchange the sky's the limit! | |
| May 7, 2019 at 0:20 | vote | accept | marko-36 | ||
| May 7, 2019 at 0:20 | comment | added | marko-36 | This is gold. The ant thanks you. | |
| May 7, 2019 at 0:10 | history | edited | uhoh | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 6, 2019 at 23:58 | history | edited | uhoh | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 6, 2019 at 23:51 | history | answered | uhoh | CC BY-SA 4.0 |