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Re:Hubble telescope has new lease on life after computer swa... by downrightmike on Friday July 16, 2021 @11:43AM (#27857469)
To be fair, Kodak made a sister mirror that wasn't chosen to go up, and when the issue on Hubble was found out, Kodak's mirror was found to be perfect.
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Re:Hubble telescope has new lease on life after computer swa... by jcims on Friday July 16, 2021 @02:09PM (#27859253)
It's fun to think that there is a bullet list of directions that would take me from where I'm typing this comment to standing in front of that exact mirror.
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Re:Hubble telescope has new lease on life after computer swa... by chiefgeek on Saturday July 17, 2021 @07:39AM (#27865114)
I worked in the Commercial and Govt Systems group at Kodak in the mid 90s and took a class on image compression from two guys who were part of the team that figured out how to mathematically correct the early, flawed Hubble images. Was really cool!
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Re:Hubble telescope has new lease on life after computer swa... by eckmLJE on Friday July 16, 2021 @11:47AM (#27857532)
Great tidbit -- found this in the NYT archive (likely paywall): https://www.nytimes.com/1990/07/18/us/hubble-has-backup-mirr...
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