This Crazy Cosmos » astro_mike http://www.mikiesoft.net Astronomy & Space Exploration Sun, 17 Jul 2011 04:18:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Atlantis repairs Hubble Space Telescope http://www.mikiesoft.net/atlantis-repairs-hubble-space-telescope/ http://www.mikiesoft.net/atlantis-repairs-hubble-space-telescope/#comments Wed, 20 May 2009 05:41:44 +0000 Mike http://www.mikiesoft.net/?p=157 The repairs made by the Atlantis Space Shuttle crew in their historic eleven day mission will enable the Hubble Space Telescope to see farther into our universe than ever before.  It was quite a ride for STS-125.

  • Five spacewalks extended Hubble’s lifespan until at least the year 2014
  • Replaced gyroscopes, batteries and science data transmitter
  • Increased the space telescope’s power 10 x 70 times
  • Installed new instruments (like the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph) and thermal blankets
  • Repaired two existing instruments

Some of the astronauts were blogging from space.  Mission specialist Mike Massimino is on Twitter as astro_mike.

More shuttle news at www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/


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