- Author
- Consulting Specifying Engineer
- Title
- Fire Detectors Protect Telescope Before Trip Through Space.
- Journal
- Consulting Specifying Engineer, Vol. 8, No. 1, 109-110, July 1990
- Keywords
- fire detectors
- Identifiers
- Hubble Space Telescope; incipient fire detectors (IFD)
- Abstract
- TheHubble Space Telescope is on its way through space bringing scientists pictures of unknown solar systems. But while still on earth, the $1.5 billion telescope's sensitive optics assembly was protected with incipient fire detectors (IFD) manufactured by Environment/One.