Talk:Advanced Technology Large-Aperture Space Telescope

This page really looks like shit now. Only a few months ago it was in tip top shape. It's a shame, really. - 142.104.166.135 (talk) 17:10, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

ATLAST as a successor for HST
The phrase about ATLAST being a "true successor to the HST" refers to its optical imaging capability, in that sense it IS NOT a replacement for JWST even if it comes after as its successor. The edition made simply left the phrase repetitive and somewhat meaningless with the following: "with the ability to obtain spectroscopic and imaging observations of astronomical objects in the ultraviolet, optical, and Infrared wavelengths, but with substantially better resolution than either HST or the planned James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). " nihil (talk) 15:42, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Importance
I have upped the importance to medium, as the revisions in the space program orientation that have been happening since 2009, with the ascendancy of Sun/Earth L2 and the HLV, seem to make it more real, and as a serviceable, upgradeable facility observatory, with (I trust) no predetermined limit on its lifetime. This JWST alas is not, due to its lack of provision for on-orbit servicing. Thus it remains in danger of catastrophic failure on deployment, the inevitable obsolescence of its instrumentation, and the eventual degradation and death of critical components. (There is some movement towards ameliorating the JWST issues lately, but it is difficult and very expensive so late in the project.)

I also wonder if anyone has looked into adding an ion/electric drive to HST, and sending it out to L2, where astronauts could service it ten years from now? Communications and getting it through the Van Allen belts would probably be the main problems. The ion drive could move it into a space station orbit for further work preparatory to the move to L2. Away from Earth, the thermal control issues would be different, but it would not have to move every orbit to avoid looking at the planet, and more of the sky would be observable. I think it would continue to be very useful out there, likely for many decades to come. This seems to me a far better fate for a noble observatory than consigning it to the Air & Space Museum, or (more probably) just dumping it in the Pacific. Wwheaton (talk) 18:55, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

Potential sources
This proposal received some media coverage this summer, which might be useful as sources: Modest Genius talk 23:40, 24 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Astronomy Now interview and video
 * RAS press release
 * University of Leicester press release
 * International Business Times report

Another Name
This telescope also seems to be called the High Definition Space Telescope. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.177.192.37 (talk) 11:04, 8 July 2015 (UTC)

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