- Author
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Consulting Specifying Engineer
- Title
- Fire Detectors Protect Telescope Before Trip Through Space.
- Journal
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Consulting Specifying Engineer,
Vol. 8,
No. 1,
109-110,
July 1990
- Keywords
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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.