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FLAT EARTH REFLECTIONS (Robert Bassano) - ASTROPHSYICS @ 45,000 Feet: SOFIA Wavelength Capability - Hubble Telescope exists


Dear Robert Bassano (FLAT EARTH REFLECTIONS aka  PLANATE VERITAS), 

Hi Robert,

Fact check = You FAIL

The Hubble Space Telescope DOES EXIST TODAY and can be tracked and observed from the ground by anyone.

Contrary to your assertion that the Hubble Space Telescope does not exist, on the "NORAD's Space Detection and Tracking System (SPADATS)" web site, the HST's position and orbital parameters can be found in "real time."

As proof, anyone can Login To http://Space-Track.org and create and account for themselves. You will then have access to current up-to-date information on the thousands of satellites that are tracked by NORAD.

http://Space-Track.org is the primary distributor of U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) 2-line orbital elements and related data, replacing NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Orbital Information Group (OIG), which permanently ceased operations on 2005 Mar 31.
https://www.space-track.org/auth/login

Norad CAT ID = 20580
SATNAME = HST

This document explains what data is displayed using menu option "Retrieve TLE Data by Satellite Catalog Number"
https://www.space-track.org/documentation#/tle

As of 10:07 am, EST today, here is what's displayed...
1 20580U 90037B 16188.29957119 .00000499 00000-0 20040-4 0 9993
2 20580 28.4694 132.5003 0002950 57.3841 72.8668 15.08410533238008

Data elements...
Line Number = 2
Satellite Catalog Number = 20580
Orbit Inclination (degrees) = 28.4694
Right Ascension of Ascending Node (degrees) = 132.5003
Eccentricity (decimal point assumed) = 0002950
Argument of Perigee (degrees) = 57.3841
Mean Anomaly (degrees) = 72.8668
Mean Motion (revolutions/day) = 15.08410533238008

TLE - telemetry data shows that ...

HST
Norad CAT ID = 20580
SATNAME = HST
INTLDES = 1990-037B
TYPE = PAYLOAD
COUNTRY = US
LAUNCH = 1990-04-24
SITE = AFETR
DECAY = none, still in orbit
PERIOD 95.46
INCL = 28.47
APOGEE = 543
PERIGEE = 539
RCS = LARGE
TLE

Summary: THE Hubble Space Telescope DOES EXIST TODAY and it's not decaying (or falling) from orbit.

On this web site real-time data for thousands of other satellites can also be found.

So here is proof that the Hubble Space Telescope is in orbit today traveling around the Earth.

This post is in response to the 10 claims made by Robert Bassano about the Hubble Space Telescope, the SOFIA (Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy) and the Chandra Space Telescope.

PLANATE VERITAS video channel title is...

PHONE CALL WITH SOFIA TEAM MANAGER! Is this Hubble & Chandra Space Telescopes @ 45,000 FEET?
Video at..
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUJNlR4spuM)

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Update: September 14, 2020

SOFIA is not getting as much observation time as originally envisioned...

OIG: NASA’s Management of the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy Program

The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) is an airborne observatory housing a 106-inch telescope mounted onboard a Boeing 747SP that makes observations from between 38,000 and 45,000 feet, putting it above 99 percent of water vapor that interferes with ground-based infrared observations. The aircraft is operated out of NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Palmdale, California, and is currently equipped with six interchangeable instruments that can be upgraded or replaced. SOFIA is used by astronomers to study astronomical objects and phenomena including star birth and death, formation of new solar systems, identification of complex molecules in space, nebulas and galaxies, and transient events like eclipses.

The SOFIA Program is a partnership between NASA—within the Science Mission Directorate’s (SMD) Astrophysics portfolio—and the German Aerospace Center and operates in cooperation with the Universities Space Research Association (USRA) and German SOFIA Institute. NASA began development of SOFIA in 1991 and the Program achieved full operational capability in 2014, 13 years behind schedule with development costs over $1 billion (more than 300 percent over the initial cost estimate). Because SOFIA has experienced ongoing operational and technical challenges and has not met science output expectations, NASA has questioned whether its $83 million in annual operating costs could be put to better use. Likewise, the President’s Budget Request has proposed terminating SOFIA on multiple occasions including most recently for fiscal year 2021. However, in the past Congress has continued to fund the Program...

(Please read this full article at the URL posted above)

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Update: April 24, 2022

Happy Birthday, Hubble (skyandtelescope.org)
https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/happy-birthday-hubble-3/

The Hubble Space Telescope turns 32 on April 24th, and the team behind the telescope is marking the occasion with the release of a galactic family picture.

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Three spiral galaxies, an elliptical, and a lenticular feature in this Hubble Space Telescope image, all packed into a volume less than 200,000 light-years across, or twice the diameter of the Milky Way’s disk. Their light traveled 300 million light-years before it reached Hubble’s cameras.

At first glance, the five stunning galaxies of Hickson Compact Group 40 look disconnected, placed next to each other in space by chance superposition. But a closer look reveals connections between them, bridges made of gas and stars.

The galaxies make up one of the most crowded compact galaxy groups known, and it’s getting more crowded still. They’re falling inexorably toward each other — in about 1 billion years, there’ll be nothing to see here except for a giant elliptical fuzzball of stars.

Such compact groups might have been more common earlier in the universe’s timeline. Galactic interactions fueled the supermassive black holes that lurk in most galaxy centers and, indeed, most of the galaxies here show evidence of such a central black hole.

The image, taken late last year, was released recently in celebration of the Hubble Space Telescope’s 32nd year of operations. Hubble has far outlived its expected lifetime, having captured 1.5 million images of about 50,000 celestial objects along the way so far. HCG 40 is one more under its belt.


(Please read the article posted at the URL above)

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Visit the main NASA Hubble site here ...
https://hubblesite.org/
https://hubblesite.org/resource-gallery/images



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Published on – October 22, 2016

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https://www.space-track.org/documentation#/tle


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