Trenton, NJ – According to Jim Norman, “When Bill Ochs was 21 and fresh out of Fairleigh Dickinson University with an electrical engineering degree in 1979, he landed a job with a local government contractor, Bendix in Teterboro. He soon found himself developing the software that would keep the Hubble Space Telescope pointed in the right direction for 25 years, providing unimaginably beautiful images of intergalactic space.”
“Hubble, which was intended to have a useful life of 15 years, hits the quarter-century mark today, and scientists expect its nearly 8-foot mirror to keep peering into deep space and providing spectacular sights for at least five more years.”
“Ochs, meanwhile, is looking even further into the universe than early Hubble developers could have dreamed. He’s working at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., as project manager for Hubble’s successor, the James Webb Space Telescope. He looks forward to being able to look back at some of the earliest times after the birth of the universe nearly 15 billion years ago.”
“The telescope that was hurled into low Earth orbit 25 years ago is named after the astronomer Edwin Powell Hubble, who died in 1953 before he could see the evidence his namesake has collected in support of his observations about galactic expansion.”
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“Ochs, meanwhile, is looking even further into the universe than early Hubble developers could have dreamed. He’s working at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., as project manager for Hubble’s successor, the James Webb Space Telescope. He looks forward to being able to look back at some of the earliest times after the birth of the universe nearly 15 billion years ago.”
“The telescope that was hurled into low Earth orbit 25 years ago is named after the astronomer Edwin Powell Hubble, who died in 1953 before he could see the evidence his namesake has collected in support of his observations about galactic expansion.”
For the complete story: http://www.northjersey.com/news/as-hubble-space-telescope-turns-25-n-j-born-developer-works-on-its-successor-1.1317475
