Over the past two decades, the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Contamination Control Program has evolved from a ground-based integration program to a space-based science-sustaining program. The contamination controls from the new-generation Scientific Instruments and Orbital Replacement Units were incorporated into the HST Contamination Control Program to maintain scientific capability over the life of the telescope. Long-term on-orbit scientific data has shown that these contamination controls implemented for the instruments, Servicing Mission activities (Orbiter, Astronauts, and mission), and on-orbit operations successfully protected the HST &om contamination and the instruments from self-contamination.
Lessons Learned from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Contamination Control Program
23rd Space Simulation Conference ; 2004 ; Annapolis, MD, United States
2004-01-01
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Lessons learned from Hubble Space Telescope extra vehicular activity supportability
American Institute of Physics | 2001
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