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What it takes to launch a telescope

Erika Hamden · TED

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About

TED Fellow and astronomer Erika Hamden leads the team building FIREBall, a telescope that hangs from a giant balloon at the very edge of space and looks for clues about how stars are created. She takes us inside the roller-coaster, decade-long journey to get the telescope from an idea into orbit -- and shows how failure is inevitable when you're pushing the limits of knowledge.

The talk

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Institution
TED
Department
TED2019
Speaker
Erika Hamden
Year
2019
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Physics, Astronomy and space
Source
TED
Licence
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