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The final visit to Hubble

MacNut

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So around 2 pm EDT space shuttle Atlantis will launch for the last time to the Hubble Telescope. The risk is that Hubble is about 350 miles up, the space station is 200, so in the event of a problem there is no way to get to the station. Endeavour is waiting on the pad for a rescue mission in the event of a problem.

Hubble will get a new camera with a higher res that will make it 70% more powerful then its launch. New batteries and new gyroscopes that will allow it to operate until 2014.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/space/05/11/shuttle.mission.hubble/index.html
 
As I said earlier, the last time I watched a shuttle launch live I was 10 years old.
 
We won't have a ship capable of making a visit so this is the last one.
 
MacNut said:
So around 2 pm EDT space shuttle Atlantis will launch for the last time to the Hubble Telescope. The risk is that Hubble is about 350 miles up, the space station is 200, so in the event of a problem there is no way to get to the station. Endeavour is waiting on the pad for a rescue mission in the event of a problem.

Hubble will get a new camera with a higher res that will make it 70% more powerful then its launch. New batteries and new gyroscopes that will allow it to operate until 2014.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/space/05/11/shuttle.mission.hubble/index.html
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Gyroscopes, better camera.. Hell - even NASA can upgrade Hubble 350 miles up faster than Apple can upgrade the iPhone 3G.
But can it do video? ;)
 
this looks interesting! where can i find pictures taken by the hubble from past times? well either way i am very intrigued by outer space and hope to see more discoverys of the universe in teh future.
 
From the article said:
"Every time we come from a Hubble mission, Hubble is essentially a new telescope -- much more powerful," said Hoffman, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who flew on the first Hubble repair mission in 1993.

"And when this crew finishes with it, it's going to be. . .like a thousand times more sensitive [for making new discoveries] than it was when it was first put in orbit, and that's incredible," he said.
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That's amazing. I can't wait to see what comes out in the next few years.
 
t0mat0 said:
Gyroscopes, better camera.. Hell - even NASA can upgrade Hubble 350 miles up faster than Apple can upgrade the iPhone 3G.
But can it do video? ;)
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The spyshots of the Hubble 2G taken in a freight elevator seem to indicate that it can't do video :D
 
Only 10 launches to go, I would love to see one in person.
 
OllyW said:
April 1981, that's 28 years ago by my calculations. :p
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For first orbital. But I did say operational.
Picture 1.png

But if you want to count the 1981 flight I was 9...
and you are still old :p
 
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