SuperBIT
Sep 01, 2021
3 minutes
by Ragini Agarwal
NASA’s SuperBIT Telescope is ready to fly!
uper Pressure Balloon-borne Telescope, i.e., SuperBIT, is all set to take its first test flight. Scientists have stated that SuperBIT is a potential successor of NASA’s Hubble Telescope. Researchers from Durham University, UK; Princeton University, USA; Toronto University, Canada, teamed up with NASA and Canadian Space Agency to build this highly stabilized, highresolution, and environmentally friendly astronomical telescope. SuperBIT is expected to make its operational debut in April 2022. Mohamed Shaaban, a doctoral student from the University of Toronto, described the telescope and its
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