Assignment#01

17-TE-45 RADAR SYSTEM ENGINEERING

Muhammad Bilal

Question:-
What is minimum detectable temperature of famous telescope and when they were launched and why
their temperature is decreasing day by day?

Sr Year Type of Minimum detectable

Name of Telescope
No launched instrument Temperature

Hubble Space Telescope Imaging

1 April 1990 21°C/75°F
[1] Spectrograph

2 Chandra X-ray Observatory July 23, 1999 X-Ray Telescope -120 C [7]
[5],[6]

Compton Gamma Ray X-Ray &Gamma

3 April 5, 1991
Observatory [11] Ray

Spitzer Space Telescope Infrared Space

4 August 25, 2003 28.6K / -244 degrees Celsius
[2],[3] Telescope

Kepler Space Telescope

5 March 7, 2009 Schmidt [4] 188 K(−85°C; −121°F)
[8]

James Webb Space Expected Date 50 Kelvin (-223° C or -370°

Telescope Infrared F).
6 October 31,
Telescope [9]
[9],[10] 2021

7 Fermi Gamma Ray 11 June 2008 Gamma Ray

Telescope [12] Telescope
References:-
[1] https://www.nasa.gov/content/hubble-space-telescope-space-telescope-imaging-
spectrograph

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spitzer_Space_Telescope

[3] https://www.amnh.org/explore/videos/space/beyond-our-solar-system-searching-for-
extrasolar-planets/seeing-the-invisible-the-spitzer-space-
telescope#:~:text=Because%20infrared%20is%20primarily%20heat,a%20complete%20lack%20
of%20heat.

[4] https://www.britannica.com/topic/Keck-telescopes

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandra_X-ray_Observatory

[6] https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.4881695

[7]https://chandra.harvard.edu/about/spacecraft.html#:~:text=There%20is%20no%20single%2
0operating,is%20regulated%20at%20%2D120%20C.

[8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler_space_telescope

[9] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Webb_Space_Telescope

[10]https://www.jwst.nasa.gov/content/about/faqs/faq.html#:~:text=To%20avoid%20swampin
g%20the%20very,or%20%2D370%C2%B0%20F).

[11] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compton_Gamma_Ray_Observatory

[12] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_Gamma-ray_Space_Telescope