Comments on: Old and new optical space telescopes team up to view the Cat’s Eye https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/old-and-new-optical-space-telescopes-team-up-to-view-the-cats-eye/ Wed, 04 Mar 2026 05:50:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Blair Ivey https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/old-and-new-optical-space-telescopes-team-up-to-view-the-cats-eye/#comment-1629426 Wed, 04 Mar 2026 04:17:38 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=121966#comment-1629426 ” . . . , as NASA and the American astronomy community has not been able to get together to start their own new optical orbiting telescope.”

It takes a lot of resources to lobby politicians to restrict Western satcons.

]]> By: Richard M https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/old-and-new-optical-space-telescopes-team-up-to-view-the-cats-eye/#comment-1629413 Tue, 03 Mar 2026 23:48:54 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=121966#comment-1629413 “In many ways Euclid is Hubble’s replacement, produced by the European Space Agency, as NASA and the American astronomy community has not been able to get together to start their own new optical orbiting telescope.”

It *is* pitiful that it’s taken this long, but we do have Roman* nearly ready to go (it does cover some visible light spectrum), and, more auspiciously, we now have our first major private sector telescope coming in the form of Lazuli**. So, it could be worse!

It is just as well, since Hubble isn’t going to be up there a whole lot longer as things stand now…
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* Launch September 2026 NET
** Launch 2029 NET, but more likely early 2030s

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