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STS-125 || Space Shuttle Atlantis - Hubble Space Telescope |
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Written by Administrator on
Sunday, 25 May 2008
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 Hubble repair mission delayed by telescope breakdown
03 October 2008 - With two space shuttle poised on the launch pad, the planned October mission to service the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope has been pushed back to next year following a failure of the telescope’s command and data systems. The breakdown does not prevent Hubble from orienting itself towards targets, once oriented the telescope cannot take pictures or transmit data back to Earth. Complicating the breakdown is the fact that NASA had planned to launch the space shuttle Atlantis on a servicing mission in less than two weeks.
|  Tropical Storm Hanna delays shuttle move, launch
07 September 2008 - Two days later than originally planned, the space shuttle Atlantis rolled out to is launch pad on the Atlantic Coast on Thursday. The move to Launch Complex 39A, the primary shuttle launching platform, was delayed by Tropical Storm Hanna, which skirted by Florida’s coast earlier in the week before charging up the eastern United States seaboard. The storm dealt no damage to the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The two-day delay will ripple through the mission timeline, pushing back the launch to service the Hubble Space Telescope to no earlier than October 8, 2008.
| Final Hubble servicing mission set for October 8
26 May 2008 - Postponed by a delay in the manufacturing of the problematic external fuel tanks, the space shuttle Atlantis will blast off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on October 8th, 2008. The mission commanded by veteran astronaut Scott Altman, will be the last shuttle mission sent to the 18-year-old Hubble Space Telescope and should ensure operation of the storied telescope through 2013.
| Fuel tank delay postpones Hubble mission
01 May 2008 - NASA saw this one coming, the Space Shuttle Atlantis’ mission to the Hubble Space Telescope haw been delayed by at least a month. As we reported a month ago, the delays getting two external fuel tanks ready for the Hubble mission for late August have added up to the point where NASA won’t be able to catch up in time. So much so that the launch has been pushed back four to five weeks.
|  External fuel tank delays may stall Hubble mission
24 March 2008 - NASA is still targeting August 28th as the launch date for the space shuttle Atlantis' mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope, but problems with the redesigned external fuel tank are threatening to delay the mission. Since the loss of the space shuttle Columbia in 2003, NASA has been constantly making design changes to the fuel tank in an effort to minimize the amout of foam insulation shed from the tank during launch. Turns out, that the changes have forced the assembly plant to start from scratch.
|  Crew for STS-126 selected
01 October 2007 - NASA has announced the crew for the Space Shuttle Endeavour's 22nd planned flight in September 2008. The STS-126 mission will deliver the Italian-built Leonardo cargo module to the International Space Station and carry nearly 14 tons of supplies and equipment for the station, including a new crew quarters that will expand the space station's capacity to six simultaneous residents. Endeavour will also be on standby as a rescue flight mission for an April 2008 flight by Discovery to the ISS, and as a rescue flight for the August 2008 flight by Atlantis to service the Hubble Space Telescope.
| IMAX returning to space to chronicle Hubble
25 September 2007 - IMAX Corporation and Warner Bros. Pictures announced Monday that, in cooperation with NASA, the IMAX 3D camera is scheduled to return to space in 2008 aboard the space shuttle during STS-125 for production of a new film. Set for release in early 2010, IMAX will chronicle the life story of the Hubble Space Telescope. "We are thrilled that people from around the world will experience this vital servicing mission from a front row seat," said Shana Dale, NASA deputy administrator, Headquarters, Washington. "Audiences will be mesmerized as they are transported to the distant galaxies of the universe."
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"Divine intervention is... unlikely."
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