ESA Space Telescope Project Mission Patch
ESA Space Telescope Project Mission Patch
This ESA mission patch was designed for a project that would eventually go on to be called the Hubble Space Telescope. The idea of a large space telescope came from American Lyman Spitzer, who proposed a realistic plan in 1946. He continued to argue for the idea for the next 30 years, when NASA and ESA adopted the idea and began collaboration on a space telescope project in the 1970s.This patch is likely to date from between 1980 and 1983. The patch has ESA member state flags on the outside, which include Ireland, and, as Ireland only officially joined ESA in 1980 and the space telescope project was renamed as Hubble in 1983, the patch can only have been produced during these years.
The patch depicts the space telescope, which already by this time was taking shape into the familiar design that would go on to become known as the Hubble Space Telescope.
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Object number
2022-12
Location
Artefact Store
Has this object been into space?
No
Dimension - Dimension, Value, Measurement unit
Width: 10cm
Height: 10cm
Depth: 0.2cm
Material
Cotton
Object Production Date
1980 - 1983
Object Production Notes
Due to the flags on the patch, it is possible to work out that it was produced sometime between 1980 (when Ireland joined, whose flag does feature on the patch) and 1983 when the Space Telescope Project was officially branded the Hubble Space Telescope.
Object Production Organisation
ESA
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