Small Problem with the Mirror
Hubble trouble: the inside story of the biggest little error in the Galaxy and its impact on its principal 'victims' - all the astronomers who have worked on the Hubble Space
Telescope and waited 13 years for dramatic new insights into the origins, evolution, age and ultimate fate of the universe.
Now, with the telescope's mirror badly flawed, Horizon follows their efforts to retrieve the science from this observatory in space and to plan a rescue package to restore its original planned performance. Can Nasa's engineers be trusted with 'big science' any more?
Written and produced by Alec Nisbett Editor Jana Bennett
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