Issues being approached for the Hubble Repair Mission are due to ground diagnosis for the telescope, using clues from telemetry by NASA similar to a mysterious “CSI Goddard Mission” based on little things viewed or obtained through data. But the hardware is not on the ground, so newly developed tools are being designed to handle [...]
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Mike Griffin’s Leaked Email: Is He Falling On His Sword?
Editor’s note: Some of you may recall my posting on 11 March 2005 that Mike Griffin was going to be the next Administrator of NASA. In that posting I recalled an action taken by Griffin during the Space Station Freedom redesign activity [...]
With the change in launching date of NASA’s Hubble Repair Mission and as time approaches, the media is filling the airwaves with questions and concerns on NASA Television. Questions like “are MMODs a major concern” and “why choose a crew member of four instead of two” are approached by the NASA panel regarding the upcoming [...]
Before we get started, I would like to personally thank Fraser Cain of Universe Today for allowing me to host the Carnival for the very first time EVER!! I hope I don’t misspell “teh” or something, but don’t count on it. I would also like to thank all the Carnival of Space bloggers for [...]
With Hubble’s Servicing Mission 4 (SM4) actually its fifth visit to the orbiting telescope, the WFC3 will study the “early and distant galaxies” in addition to the galaxies in our own neighborhood, with the prior currently beyond Hubble’s reach. Meanwhile, the COS will study the large-scale structure of the universe, obtaining a better understanding [...]
Hubble will be retrieved from its orbit by the Shuttle’s robotic arm and placed in the payload bay for servicing.
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“The repair of STIS, and of ACS in particular, involves techniques that the astronauts have never done before on Hubble, possibly never before anywhere,” explained Dr. Dave Leckrone, Senior Project Scientist for Hubble Space Telescope. “That [...]
Experts representatives of the United State’s National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the European Space Agency (ESA) have been meeting for the past six months in a detailed assessment of potential programs and technologies. Hopefully, in the near future these assessments will support a human outpost on the Moon.
On July 7 and 8th, [...]
The lone remote sensing instrument for the Solar Probe+ is the Hemispheric Imager or “HI” for short. Consisting of a telescope that will make 3D images similar to medical CAT scans of the Sun’s corona, this new coronal tomography is one of the newest developments available for solar imaging, with photography performed from a moving [...]
“The scale of this site, the terrain of this site is something you just can’t find in most places in the world,” said Terry Phong with NASA. Phong works on the K-10 robot team. The black and red pair will scout out terrain, scan the ground and draw up maps. The robots are being controlled [...]
“I am excited about the new partnership between NASA and Oceaneering,” said Glenn Lutz, project manager for the spacesuit system at Johnson. “Now it is time for our spacesuit team to begin the journey together that ultimately will put new sets of boot prints on the moon.”
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With the new space developments by Oceaneering International Inc. [...]
