The Space Telescope

The Space Telescope is a NASA program intended to launch a long-lived 2.4 meter astronomical observatory in 1983. It will contain optical and pointing systems producing a resolution of at least 0.1 arc seconds over periods of 10 hours. This capability will allow a new regime of imaging astronomical observations to be undertaken from below Lyman-alpha to the millimeter wavelength range. The optical, optical metering structure, pointing and guidance system, and control system will be described.