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Hubble Service Mission 4
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Uploaded: 08/09/08 11:16 AM GMT
Hubble Service Mission 4
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It moves at 5 miles a second, itÂ’s spent 18 years in orbit, travelled 2.72 billion miles and this coming Monday; the Hubble telescope passes another landmark with its 100,000th orbit of the planet.
Preparations are well underway for the October launch of the latest and last shuttle mission to service and upgrade the telescope. The mission is also the final flight of the Atlantis orbiter and will last 11 days with five separate spacewalks to repair and upgrade the scope once it has been captured.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL & ESA.
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Grand info mister!! Science and technology...amazing stuff!!
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Why do the pictures come out square when the lens is round??
Your back with your space goodies! YEA!!!
Your knowledge of space and the space missions is incredible Phil. I read the stuff all the time, but a lot of it seems to float over my head.
So, the image behind the patch is an artist impression of the methane molecule? I hope I read that right......
I am so glad to see you back and posting considering how you are roughing it in your new home :=)
Many thanks for yet another lesson under my belt.
Hope all is well and many thanks for sharing this with me :=)
Your knowledge of space and the space missions is incredible Phil. I read the stuff all the time, but a lot of it seems to float over my head.
So, the image behind the patch is an artist impression of the methane molecule? I hope I read that right......
I am so glad to see you back and posting considering how you are roughing it in your new home :=)
Many thanks for yet another lesson under my belt.
Hope all is well and many thanks for sharing this with me :=)
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~mimi~
No Mimi - the illustration is of the planet (with the catchy name of HD 189733b) where the methane content was discovered by the Hubble team :-)
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A smart bomb is only as clever as the idiot that tells it what to do
And Phil is back! Wohoo... excellent image as always. Hope the Hubble mission goes as planned, can't wait to see the amazing images the upgrades will be capable of.
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Phil: you said this will be the last Atlantis mission. What about the shuttle successor?
Wonderful to see you back in the Space gallery :-)
Wonderful to see you back in the Space gallery :-)
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-Pierre-
the remaining shuttles in the fleet will continue until their planned retirement in a couple of years time. the fate of the Atlantis is still cloudy - the Hubble mission was supposed to be its last but it may yet get press ganged back into active flight status to compensate for delays in completing the shuttle programs commitments. the replacement program (abandoning the reusable concept and going back to more conventional designs) is already under construction at NASA as well as testing programs being carried out on prototypes for lunar and martian transport vehicles.
The first unmanned test flights for the ARES 1 rocket is still about 18 months away with the massive ARES V heavy lift rocket several years after that. it is this beast that will be the workhorse for delivering crew and cargos into orbit for interplanetary missions. tests will continue for the next decade before the full manned lunar and martian missions begin ten years from now.
The first unmanned test flights for the ARES 1 rocket is still about 18 months away with the massive ARES V heavy lift rocket several years after that. it is this beast that will be the workhorse for delivering crew and cargos into orbit for interplanetary missions. tests will continue for the next decade before the full manned lunar and martian missions begin ten years from now.
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A smart bomb is only as clever as the idiot that tells it what to do
yep - its back to basics :-)
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A smart bomb is only as clever as the idiot that tells it what to do
The image here depicts the STS-125 mission patch with an artists impression of one of Hubble’s most recent and important discoveries, the first detection ever of organic molecules in the atmosphere of an extrasolar planet. This breakthrough is an important step in eventually identifying signs of life on a planet outside our own system.
The molecule found by Hubble is methane, which under the right circumstances can play a key role in prebiotic chemistry - the chemical reactions considered necessary to form life as we know it. This illustration depicts the planet HD 189733b with its parent star peeking above its top edge.