The Orion space telescopes were a series of two instruments flown aboard Soviet spacecraft during the 1970s to conduct ultraviolet spectroscopy of stars...

operational telescopes were the American Orbiting Astronomical Observatory, OAO-2 launched in 1968, and the Soviet Orion 1 ultraviolet telescope aboard space station...

Look up Orion in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Orion may refer to: Orion (constellation), named after the mythical hunter Orion (mythology), a hunter...

The Hubble Space Telescope (often referred to as HST or Hubble) is a space telescope that was launched into low Earth orbit in 1990 and remains in operation...

January 2006 Hubble Space Telescope image of the Orion Nebula January 2006 Hubble Space Telescope image of the Trapezium cluster Orion Nebula M42, Hubble...

to 2013, and was the largest infrared telescope ever launched until the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope in 2021. Herschel carries a 3.5-metre...

Orion's Belt asterism. Orion also hosts the radiant of the annual Orionids, the strongest meteor shower associated with Halley's Comet, and the Orion...

This list of space telescopes (astronomical space observatories) is grouped by major frequency ranges: gamma ray, x-ray, ultraviolet, visible, infrared...

Surveyor, commonly known as LUVOIR (/luːˈvwɑːr/), is a multi-wavelength space telescope concept being developed by NASA under the leadership of a Science and...

X-ray Astrophysics Facility (AXAF), is a Flagship-class space telescope launched aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia during STS-93 by NASA on July 23, 1999...

The Orion molecular cloud complex (or, simply, the Orion complex) is a star-forming region with stellar ages ranging up to 12 Myr. Two giant molecular...

Orion 1 or Orion-1 may refer to: Exploration Flight Test-1, the first test launch of the Orion space capsule in 2014 Orión (rocket), a sounding rocket...

Orion (Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle or Orion MPCV) is a partially reusable crewed spacecraft used in NASA's Artemis program. The spacecraft consists...

Euclid is a wide-angle space telescope with a 600-megapixel camera to record visible light, a near-infrared spectrometer, and photometer, to determine...

The VISTA (Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy) is a wide-field reflecting telescope with a 4.1 metre mirror, located at the Paranal Observatory...

Orbiting Astronomical Observatory (#2:1968-73. #3:1972-1981) - Orion 1 and Orion 2 Space Observatories (#1: 200-380 nm, 1971; #2: 200-300 nm, 1973) + -...

A refracting telescope (also called a refractor) is a type of optical telescope that uses a lens as its objective to form an image (also referred to a...

planned to develop different Orion capsules tailored for specific missions. The Block I Orion was to be used for International Space Station missions and other...

Commercial Crew Program, and oversees the development of the Orion spacecraft and the Space Launch System for the lunar Artemis program. NASA's science...

Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) in Green Bank, West Virginia, US is the world's largest fully steerable radio telescope, surpassing the Effelsberg...

will use the second launch of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and include the first crewed mission of the Orion spacecraft. The mission is scheduled...

space crew to die during a space flight. On board the space station Salyut 1 he operated the Orion 1 Space Observatory (see Orion 1 and Orion 2 Space...

Maxwell Telescope. JCMT homepage (new) Slicing the Universe with HARP/ACSIS - A New Look at Orion Portals: Hawaii Astronomy Stars Spaceflight Outer space Solar...

constellation Orion. The nebula is located just to the south of Alnitak, the easternmost star of Orion's Belt, and is part of the much larger Orion molecular...

most productive facilities for astronomy, second only to the Hubble Space Telescope in terms of the number of scientific papers produced from facilities...

Orion 2 or Orion-2 may refer to: Orion 2, a space telescope flown in 1973 aboard the Soyuz 13 spacecraft Orión-2, a sounding rocket from Argentina, used...

The Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) was a space telescope for infrared light designed and operated by the European Space Agency (ESA), in cooperation...

two crewed launches of the Orion spacecraft. In 2012, Skylab II was proposed by an engineer working with NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. It would use...

the Orion Nebula some 90 trillion miles across. These data-driven animations were created by the Office of Public Outreach at the Space Telescope Science...

located in the constellation Orion. It is the northernmost part of the asterism known as Orion's Sword, lying 0.6° north of the Orion Nebula. The reflection...