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    BBC....

    Bigelow Aerospace (space station modules) + UK ATC (made IR sensor for JWST) for a beyond Earth orbit space telescope. This would operate well beyond the moon.

    UK tech to aid private space shot

    UK technology could aid a US company's ambitions to send spacecraft beyond low-Earth orbit.

    Bigelow Aerospace's plans include telescopes that could be sent into deep space.

    The UK's Astronomy Technology Centre (UK ATC) has signed a memorandum of understanding with Bigelow.

    UK ATC has developed an infrared sensor for the US-European James Webb Space Telescope.

    Bigelow's space telescope concepts include operating beyond the Moon, more than one million kilometres away at one of the Lagrange points - gravitational "sweet spots" where spacecraft can hold station without expending too much fuel.

    But before any deep space mission UK technology could be tested onboard the private space station Bigelow is planning.

    The space station, to be launched in 2014 and operated from 2015, will consist of three habitation modules.
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    Last edited by Dr Mordrid; 10 January 2011, 14:49.
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