Real World: How the Hubble Telescope Is Powered in Space

Learn how NASA uses light from the sun to make electricity to keep the Hubble Space Telescope powered in space. Scientists use an equation to balance the power in the solar panels and batteries.

Background Information

Grades 6 through 8

• Amazing Space Hubble Space Telescope Teaching Tools
• NASA Hubble 25th Anniversary
• NASA Hubble Space Telescope
• NASA The Hubble Space Telescope Education Resource Page
• NASA What is the Hubble Space Telescope?
• Space Telescope Science Institute Hubble Source

Activities

Grades 6 through 8

• NASA 3D Models of the Hubble Space Telescope

Mathematics

Grades 6 through 8

• Space Math @ NASA Recent Events: A Perspective on Carbon Dioxide
• Space Math @ NASA Satellite Power Loss and Hubble Space Telescope
• Space Math @ NASA Solar Energy in Space
• Space Math @ NASA Solar Power and Satellite Design
• SpaceMath @NASA Solar Power and Satellite Design

Grades 9 through 12

• Space Math @ NASA Recent Events: A Perspective on Carbon Dioxide
• Space Math @ NASA Solar Energy in Space

Other

Grades 6 through 8

• NASA Hubble Careers