STS-125 Last Hubble Servicing Mission

2009-05-14 00:35:34

#76

Kmar: Truth is my Bitch; +5,695|6609|132 and Bush

Got it.

The Space Shuttle Atlantis has captured the Hubble Space Telescope with the shuttle's robotic arm. Astronauts have lowered Hubble into a special cradle in Atlantis' payload bay and positioned the shuttle so Hubble's solar arrays can continue to absorb energy from the Sun, charging the telescope's batteries.

http://hubblesite.org/servicing_mission_4/

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2009-05-15 06:53:42

#77

Kmar: Truth is my Bitch; +5,695|6609|132 and Bush

Amazing pictures.. Shuttle transit.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ … g-sun.html

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphot … 2/sizes/o/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphot … otostream/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphot … 7/sizes/o/

The stunning images were taken by Thierry Legault, an engineer famed for taking pictures of space from his back garden in Paris.

These images, however, were taken from Florida, 60 miles south of the Kennedy Space Centre from where the Space Shuttle blasted off on Tuesday.

'I brought the equipment from France with me,' he told the Mail Online.

'All calculations had been made by the specialized site www.calsky.com so that I knew weeks before when the transit would be visible from Florida.

'Once there it only took a few minutes to install the telescope on a big video tripod.'

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2009-05-15 06:59:14

#78

M.O.A.B: 'Light 'em up!'; +1,220|6231|Escea

Kmarion wrote:
Amazing pictures.. Shuttle transit.
http://i43.tinypic.com/2lc2wzt.jpg

http://i40.tinypic.com/2mma7bm.jpg

http://i42.tinypic.com/2cgod9u.jpg

http://i44.tinypic.com/r86qlf.jpg

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ … g-sun.html

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphot … 2/sizes/o/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphot … otostream/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphot … 7/sizes/o/

The stunning images were taken by Thierry Legault, an engineer famed for taking pictures of space from his back garden in Paris.

These images, however, were taken from Florida, 60 miles south of the Kennedy Space Centre from where the Space Shuttle blasted off on Tuesday.

'I brought the equipment from France with me,' he told the Mail Online.

'All calculations had been made by the specialized site www.calsky.com so that I knew weeks before when the transit would be visible from Florida.

'Once there it only took a few minutes to install the telescope on a big video tripod.'

Holy crap

The big yellow background almost looks like a CGI sun.

I've seen a low orbit satellite before, but that is just facken orsum

2009-05-15 09:08:15

#79

Kmar: Truth is my Bitch; +5,695|6609|132 and Bush

Photo of the year .

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2009-05-15 11:15:28

#80

King_County_Downy: shitfaced; +2,791|6605|Seattle

You might enjoy this (if it hasn't already been posted, haven't read the whole thread, sry)

http://i.usatoday.net/tech/graphics/iss … /flash.htm

Sober enough to know what I'm doing, drunk enough to really enjoy doing it

2009-05-15 11:20:20

#81

Ultrafunkula: Hector: Ding, ding, ding, ding...; +1,975|6482|6 6 4 oh, I forget

King_County_Downy wrote:
You might enjoy this (if it hasn't already been posted, haven't read the whole thread, sry)

http://i.usatoday.net/tech/graphics/iss … /flash.htm

Cool stuff! Had no idea it's that big already.

2009-05-15 11:21:39

#82

Ultrafunkula: Hector: Ding, ding, ding, ding...; +1,975|6482|6 6 4 oh, I forget

Btw where and on what do the astronauts sleep while in orbit?

2009-05-15 13:35:05

#83

Kmar: Truth is my Bitch; +5,695|6609|132 and Bush

Ultrafunkula wrote:
Btw where and on what do the astronauts sleep while in orbit?

On the ISS look here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-yIqxoMBVU#t=2m35s

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2009-05-15 14:40:56

#84

Ultrafunkula: Hector: Ding, ding, ding, ding...; +1,975|6482|6 6 4 oh, I forget

Kmarion wrote:
Ultrafunkula wrote:
Btw where and on what do the astronauts sleep while in orbit?
On the ISS look here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-yIqxoMBVU#t=2m35s

How can they get sleep up there without a pillow and a blanket? I couldn't imagine sleeping without my head resting on something although it would be zero gravity. Trippy...

2009-05-17 22:26:40

#85

Kmar: Truth is my Bitch; +5,695|6609|132 and Bush

Astrophysics chief from briefing today: "The telescope as it stands right now is better than it ever has been scientifically."

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2009-05-18 21:24:40

#86

Kmar: Truth is my Bitch; +5,695|6609|132 and Bush

The final walk went well.

Highlights.

Some behind the scenes stuff.

Stripped screws..

Cool mission photos from the big picture.
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/0 … issio.html

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2009-05-19 01:30:07

#87

Kmar: Truth is my Bitch; +5,695|6609|132 and Bush

Ultrafunkula wrote:
Btw where and on what do the astronauts sleep while in orbit?

From orbit: Getting ready for bed, sleeping in space is cool, tie down your sleeping bag and float inside of it, very relaxing..

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2009-05-19 02:15:07

#88

AussieReaper: ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°); +5,761|6161|what

Hubble:

2009-05-19 07:56:25

#89

Mekstizzle: WALKER; +3,611|6629|London, England

yay telescope

Amazing how they can fix onto a telescope, upgrade it, all whilst staying 560km above the earth and travelling at 7,500m/s and then detach and come back to earth keeping the Hubble in its precise Orbit

I mean yeah, it's all just very precise mathematics but still, to actually get it all done correctly, that's the bit that always impresses me the most when it comes to spaceflight, how they always manage to use gravitational and other forces so precisely

2009-05-19 21:47:22

#90

Kmar: Truth is my Bitch; +5,695|6609|132 and Bush

Mekstizzle wrote:
yay telescope

Amazing how they can fix onto a telescope, upgrade it, all whilst staying 560km above the earth and travelling at 7,500m/s and then detach and come back to earth keeping the Hubble in its precise Orbit

I mean yeah, it's all just very precise mathematics but still, to actually get it all done correctly, that's the bit that always impresses me the most when it comes to spaceflight, how they always manage to use gravitational and other forces so precisely

It is incredible.

The JWST will not be serviceable.

Today's release.

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2009-05-20 10:32:14

#91

Kmar: Truth is my Bitch; +5,695|6609|132 and Bush

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2009-05-20 11:27:39

#92

Mekstizzle: WALKER; +3,611|6629|London, England

Why'd they point the camera up, should've put it further up away from the smoke and fiery hellish flame and then pointed it down, always better to see rockets go up from the "looking down" perspective to see just how fast they fuck off from Earth

2009-05-20 14:02:57

#93

Kmar: Truth is my Bitch; +5,695|6609|132 and Bush

Mekstizzle wrote:
Why'd they point the camera up, should've put it further up away from the smoke and fiery hellish flame and then pointed it down, always better to see rockets go up from the "looking down" perspective to see just how fast they fuck off from Earth

Those cameras are there to observe debris. Not for maximum fuckoff observation.

.. but here ya go.

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2009-05-21 04:02:17

#94

Mekstizzle: WALKER; +3,611|6629|London, England

That's more like it, I want some entertainment damnit. My tax money doesn't pay for nothing

oooh look at it go

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2009-05-21 07:57:43

#95

FEOS: Bellicose Yankee Air Pirate; +1,182|6419|'Murka

Mekstizzle wrote:
That's more like it, I want some entertainment damnit. My tax money doesn't pay for nothing

oooh look at it go

ummm...your tax money doesn't pay for anything NASA does.

“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
― Albert Einstein
Doing the popular thing is not always right. Doing the right thing is not always popular

2009-05-21 08:42:23

#96

Mekstizzle: WALKER; +3,611|6629|London, England

FEOS wrote:
Mekstizzle wrote:
That's more like it, I want some entertainment damnit. My tax money doesn't pay for nothing

oooh look at it go
ummm...your tax money doesn't pay for anything NASA does.

2009-05-21 09:22:33

#97

Kmar: Truth is my Bitch; +5,695|6609|132 and Bush

Well... the ESA supports NASA in many ways. The James Webb telescope will be launched on one of their launch vehicles, an Ariane 5.

Xbone Stormsurgezz

2009-05-21 09:27:45

#98

Mekstizzle: WALKER; +3,611|6629|London, England

I was only joking when I talked about my taxes, Britain barely contributes to the ESA, although recently they announced the first ever (proper) British Astronaut

Ok barely contributing is exaggerating but still

Last edited by Mekstizzle (2009-05-21 09:28:27)

2009-05-21 17:16:23

#99

tahadar: Sniper!!; +183|6747|Pakistan/England

the maximum fuckoff camera angle is amazing.

2009-05-21 20:32:02

#100

Kmar: Truth is my Bitch; +5,695|6609|132 and Bush

An amazing mission.. successful in every way. I cant wait to see the upgraded images.

I expect to hear the double booms tomorrow morn.

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