The Government has offered Australia's three mobile operators, and vividwireless, renewal of their existing spectrum allocated on 15 year licences in the late 90s and early 2000s at set prices, while the Government expects to rake in $3 billion.
The mission has accomplished many new advances in astronomy, including a more accurate rate of expansion of the Universe and the most-distant visible light survey of some of the most distant objects known to exist in the Universe.
STS-125 will be the fifth repair and service mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. The repairs to Hubble should allow it to remain functional at least through the year 2013.
At that time, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is expected to be launched into orbit from an Ariane 5 rocket no earlier than June 2013.
The Webb Space Telescope will not replace Hubble, only complement its observations of space objects. Hubble sees in the visible and ultraviolet parts of the electromagnetic spectrum, while Webb will observe in the infrared portion.
A history of HST (Hubble Space Telescope) is found at NASA’s website entitled “The Hubble Space Telescope.”
The lift-off of STS-125 from the Kennedy Space Center (KSC), in Florida, can be watched on NASA Television (check your local listings) and on NASA TV on the Internet.
The launch is scheduled for May 11, 2009 at 2:01 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT), 1801 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
Its eleven-day mission is scheduled to conclude on May 22 when it lands at approximately 11:41 a.m. EDT (1541 UTC) at the KSC landing strip.
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