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04.16.2008 - NASA’s Clean Room: Last Stop for New Hubble Hardware
Before new Hubble components are ready for launch and installation, they must spend time in a clean room at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
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03.13.2008 - New Hubble Parts Endure Environmental Tests
To prepare for Servicing Mission 4, new Hubble components must endure harsh tests at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
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02.21.2008 - Hubble's Ground-Based Guidance
The Hubble would not be able to do what it does without the help of a small group of dedicated engineers and technicians at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.
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01.24.2008 - Out-of-This-World Tools for Hubble Tasks
A team at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center designs and builds the special tools and aids astronauts need when they service the Hubble Space Telescope.
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01.10.2008 - Hubble -- A Year in Review
Read about important Hubble milestones in 2007 and what's in store for the telescope in 2008.
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01.08.2008 - NASA Announces Details of Hubble Servicing Mission
NASA scientists and a space shuttle astronaut outlined details of a mission that will repair and upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope.
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12.17.07 - Custom-Made Blankets for a World-Class Observatory
One of Servicing Mission 4's many objectives is the refurbishment of Hubble's outer thermal blankets.
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11.16.07 - Goddard Engineers and Divers Multi-Task for Hubble
Ever wonder how NASA astronauts prepare for Hubble Space Telescope servicing missions?
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10.15.07 - New Science Instruments for Hubble
Astronauts will install two new Hubble instruments during the final shuttle servicing mission in August 2008.
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09.21.07 - Our Journey Back to Hubble
Since its launch in April 1990, the Hubble continues to excite astronomers around the world with its discoveries.
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09.19.07 - Astronauts at Goddard – Training to Service Hubble
The astronauts were here at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Sep. 10-14 for hands on training and daily briefings in preparation for next year’s Shuttle mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope.
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09.06.07 - NICMOS Status
Hubble's Near Infrared Camera and Multi-object Spectrometer (NICMOS) science instrument entered safe mode on
September 1 at 10:59 p.m. EDT. The event occurred when NICMOS failed to perform a routine read of internal
engineering status and shut itself down. NICMOS observations originally planned this week have been deferred.
NICMOS was successfully restored to operational readiness on September 4. Science observations using NICMOS should
resume September 9.
Although the NICMOS event occurred during recovery to science operations from the Gyro #2 failure, engineers
confirmed the two events are unrelated. The recovery process will not impact the current Servicing Mission 4
development activities. |
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09.06.07 - Gyro Status
Hubble entered a safe hold event on August 31 at 7:02 p.m. EDT due to an apparent flex lead failure on Gyro #2. Based on
existing data, the team anticipated such issues and in August 2005, implemented a 'two-gryo' science
mode. After confirming a restart of Gyro #2 is not possible, the team powered up Gyro #6, held in reserve, at
1:55 a.m. EDT on September 1. Science observations using this new configuration began in the evening of
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08.07.07 - Shuttle Target Launch Date for Hubble Mission
The launch of the space Shuttle Atlantis to service the Hubble for the fifth and final time is scheduled for August 7, 2008. |
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06.07.07 - NASA Updates Shuttle Target Launch Date for Hubble Mission
NASA managers officially are targeting Sept. 10, 2008, for the launch of the fifth and final space shuttle servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. During the 11-day flight, Atlantis' seven astronauts will repair and improve the observatory's capabilities through 2013.
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04.19.07 - NASA Completes Two Important Reviews for Upcoming Hubble Mission
On April 18 and 19, the Servicing Mission Four Review Board met to conduct a Critical Design Review and a Test Readiness Review.
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02.21.2007 - ACS Status
The ACS Solar Blind Channel (SBC) has been reactivated using the ACS Side-1 electronics. Procedures to return the SBC to service proceeded normally on February 19 and 20.
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02.13.2007 - Goddard Engineers Provide Training for Hubble Astronauts
Astronauts selected for the next space shuttle servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope are at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., this week for their first formal crew orientation.
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02.05.07 - NICMOS Cyro-Cooler
The NICMOS Cyro-Cooler reached its control point (the degree of cooling needed to provide optimum operating temperature) just before 5 a.m. EST on January 31. Based on this data, NASA managers agreed to bring NICMOS back on line ready for science data collection early Feb. 1. |
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01.29.07 -Engineers Investigate Issue on One of Hubble's Science Instruments
NASA engineers are examining a problem related to the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) aboard the agency's Hubble Space Telescope.
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10.31.06 - Hubble to be Serviced Again
NASA Administrator Mike Griffin has announced another servicing mission to Hubble.
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06.30.06 - Engineers Restart Hubble Camera
NASA Engineers successfully activated the Advanced Camera for Surveys at 9:12 a.m. EDT today aboard the agency's Hubble Space Telescope.
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06.27.06 - NASA Issues Hubble Space Telescope Status Report
NASA engineers continue to examine the issues surrounding a problem related to the Advanced Camera for Surveys aboard the agency's Hubble Space Telescope.
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06.16.2006 - Servicing Mission 4 Update
Find out the latest information about possible future servicing of the Hubble Space Telescope.
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08.31.2005 - Hubble begins 2-Gyro operations
A new era for the HST began August 31, 2005 when one of its three operating gyroscopes (or "gyros") was powered off and science operations will continue into the foreseeable future on only two units.
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04.25.05 - Hubble Celebrates 15th Anniversary with Spectacular New Images
During the 15 years NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has orbited the Earth, it has taken more than 750,000 photos of the cosmos; images that have awed, astounded and even confounded astronomers and the public.
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04.14.05 - Michael Griffin Takes
Helm as NASA Administrator
Michael Griffin is returning to NASA as the Agency's 11th Administrator.
He reported to work at NASA Headquarters in Washington on Thursday,
April 14...
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08.06.04 - Instrument
Aboard Hubble Space Telescope Suspends Operation
One of four science instruments aboard NASA's Hubble's Space Telescope
suspended operations earlier this week, and engineers are now looking
into possible recovery options. The instrument, called the Space Telescope
Imaging Spectrograph (STIS), was installed during the second Hubble
servicing mission in 1997 and was designed to operate for five years.
It has either met or exceeded all its scientific requirements.
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06.24.04 - Hubble IMAX
Film Takes Viewers on Ride Through Space and Time
Take a virtual ride to the outer reaches of the universe and explore
10 billion years of galactic history, from fully formed and majestic
spiral galaxies to disheveled collections of stars just beginning
to form. This unforgettable cosmic journey is presented in the award-winning
IMAX short film, "Hubble: Galaxies Across Space and Time,"...
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06.01.04 - NASA Considering
Robotic Mission to Hubble
NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe today announced the agency's decision
to pursue the feasibility of a robotic servicing mission to the Hubble
Space Telescope (HST). NASA initiated the first step toward enabling
such a mission with the release of a Request for Proposals today.
The due date for proposal submissions is July 16, 2004.
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04.29.04 - NASA Is Not
Giving Up on Hubble!
Looking for creative ways to extend the observatory's Life.
How do you extend the life of an orbiting space telescope without
sending astronauts to fix it? This is the very question that NASA's
most creative engineers are pondering these days.
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01.30.04 - O'Keefe to
Review Decision to Cancel Servicing Mission
It was announced on Jan. 29 that NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe
has agreed to a review of his Jan. 16 decision to terminate all future
servicing missions to the Hubble Space Telescope, specifically Servicing
Mission 4 (SM4), which had been planned for mid-2006 for the installation
of two new science instruments as well as replacement gyroscopes,
batteries, and other hardware designed to extend Hubble's life to
2010 and beyond. The chairman of the Columbia Accident Investigation
Board (CAIB), Adm. Hal Gehman, will conduct the review. |
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01.19.04 - Servicing
Mission for Hubble Cancelled
The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Program has received notification
from the NASA Administrator that he has decided to cancel all further
HST on-orbit servicing, including Servicing Mission 4 (SM4, planned
for mid-2006). The decision was based in part on the risks to Shuttle
astronauts associated with future HST servicing missions. |
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01.09.04 - Hubble Exhibit
Receives Positve Reviews
The exhibit "Hubble Space Telescope: News and Views of the Universe"
continues to garner positive reviews and visitors since its opening
in October 2003. Jim Jeletic, HST Science Operations Manager at Goddard,
called the experience, "one of the highlights of [his] career."
It was another opportunity, he felt, to reach out and share the inner
workings of NASA with the community.
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