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Qué se necesita para lanzar un telescopio

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La astrónoma y socia TED Erika Hamden lidera al equipo que construyó "FIREBall", un telescopio impulsado por un globo aerostático gigante. FIREBall llegó hasta los límites del espacio exterior para buscar pistas acerca de cómo se originan las estrellas. Erika nos comparte su emocionante aventura de una década para conseguir que el telescopio pasara de ser una idea a estar en órbita, y nos muestra que los fracasos son inevitables cuando se trabaja en las fronteras del conocimiento.

La astrónoma y socia TED Erika Hamden lidera al equipo que construyó "FIREBall", un telescopio impulsado por un globo aerostático gigante. FIREBall llegó hasta los límites del espacio exterior para buscar pistas acerca de cómo se originan las estrellas. Erika nos comparte su emocionante aventura de una década para conseguir que el telescopio pasara de ser una idea a estar en órbita, y nos muestra que los fracasos son inevitables cuando se trabaja en las fronteras del conocimiento.

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TED Fellow Erika Hamden builds telescopes, with a focus on the ultraviolet, and develops sensor technology to make telescopes more efficient.

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"FIREBall-2: advancing TRL while doing proof-of-concept astrophysics on a suborbital platform"

A scientific paper on FIREBall and technology development, which was submitted to the 2019 SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing conference.

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"Scientists Need To Talk More About Failure"

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