This press kit for the December 1993 flight of Endeavour on Space Shuttle Mission STS-61 includes a general release, cargo bay payloads and activities, in-cabin payloads, and STS-61 crew biographies. This flight will see the first in a series of planned visits to the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope (HST). The first HST servicing mission has three primary objectives: restoring the planned scientific capabilities, restoring reliability of HST systems and validating the HST on-orbit servicing concept. These objectives will be accomplished in a variety of tasks performed by the astronauts in Endeavour's cargo bay. The primary servicing task list is topped by the replacement of the spacecraft's solar arrays. The spherical aberration of the primary mirror will be compensated by the installation of the Wide Field/Planetary Camera-II and the Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement. New gyroscopes will also be installed along with fuse plugs and electronic units.
Space Shuttle Mission STS-61: Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission-01
1993
53 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Astronautics , Hubble space telescope , Optical correction procedure , Space maintenance , Space missions , Space transportation system flights , Astronauts , Prelaunch summaries , Space shuttle payloads , Space shuttles , Biography , Cargo , Gyroscopes , Mission planning , Solar arrays , Spacecraft maintenance
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