http://hubblesite.org/servicing_mission_4/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.
Got it.
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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/
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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Holy crapKmarion 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.'
The big yellow background almost looks like a CGI sun.
I've seen a low orbit satellite before, but that is just facken orsum
Photo of the year .
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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
http://i.usatoday.net/tech/graphics/iss … /flash.htm
Sober enough to know what I'm doing, drunk enough to really enjoy doing it
Cool stuff! Had no idea it's that big already.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
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=2m35sUltrafunkula wrote:
Btw where and on what do the astronauts sleep while in orbit?
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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...Kmarion wrote:
On the ISS look here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-yIqxoMBVU#t=2m35sUltrafunkula wrote:
Btw where and on what do the astronauts sleep while in orbit?
Astrophysics chief from briefing today: "The telescope as it stands right now is better than it ever has been scientifically."
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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
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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From orbit: Getting ready for bed, sleeping in space is cool, tie down your sleeping bag and float inside of it, very relaxing..Ultrafunkula wrote:
Btw where and on what do the astronauts sleep while in orbit?
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Hubble:
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
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.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
The JWST will not be serviceable.
Today's release.
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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.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
.. but here ya go.
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That's more like it, I want some entertainment damnit. My tax money doesn't pay for nothing
oooh look at it go
oooh look at it go
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ummm...your tax money doesn't pay for anything NASA does.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
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Doing the popular thing is not always right. Doing the right thing is not always popular
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ummm...your tax money doesn't pay for anything NASA does.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
Well... the ESA supports NASA in many ways. The James Webb telescope will be launched on one of their launch vehicles, an Ariane 5.
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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
Ok barely contributing is exaggerating but still
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the maximum fuckoff camera angle is amazing.
An amazing mission.. successful in every way. I cant wait to see the upgraded images.
I expect to hear the double booms tomorrow morn.
I expect to hear the double booms tomorrow morn.
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