Hubble Mission

NASA has officially added the servicing mission to the manifest.
Endeavour will launch on February 7, 2008 on the STS-125 (HST SM-04)
mission to the HST.

On 27 Feb 2006 17:22:04 -0800, wrote:

NASA has officially added the servicing mission to the manifest.
Endeavour will launch on February 7, 2008 on the STS-125 (HST SM-04)
mission to the HST.

Interesting. I thought they were going to wait to see how the OBSS
boom pans out as a work platform on STS-121.

Brian

"Brian Thorn" wrote in message
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On 27 Feb 2006 17:22:04 -0800, wrote:

NASA has officially added the servicing mission to the manifest.
Endeavour will launch on February 7, 2008 on the STS-125 (HST SM-04)
mission to the HST.

Interesting. I thought they were going to wait to see how the OBSS
boom pans out as a work platform on STS-121.

Brian

In order to prepare for it, there needed to be an end to the uncertainty. I
imagine that if something really bad happens between now and then, it can
easily be trashed.

I also think that this sort of operation is what we need to do more of, as
its fixing stuff in transit etc, which will be required if the moon and
beyond ever gets off the ground. In my opinion. I doubt the robotic devices
will be sophisticated enough, fast enough to do more than act as assistants.

Brian

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As with anything, the testing of the OBSS is just that. If it turns out
that there is too much motion at the end of the boom, I can imagine there
might be some additional hardware designed to stabilize it. The capability
is probably need for the ISS too. So, if the DTO on STS-121 proves the
capability, fine. If it doesn't, that just means there is more work to be
done if NASA is intent on servicing the HST.

The actual decision to service the HST is a political one, not an
engineering one.

Glad to hear they added it to the manifest. :-)

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On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 11:58:43 +0000, Brian Gaff wrote:


"Brian Thorn" wrote in message
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On 27 Feb 2006 17:22:04 -0800, wrote:

NASA has officially added the servicing mission to the manifest.
Endeavour will launch on February 7, 2008 on the STS-125 (HST SM-04)
mission to the HST.

Interesting. I thought they were going to wait to see how the OBSS
boom pans out as a work platform on STS-121.

Brian

In order to prepare for it, there needed to be an end to the uncertainty. I
imagine that if something really bad happens between now and then, it can
easily be trashed.

I also think that this sort of operation is what we need to do more of, as
its fixing stuff in transit etc, which will be required if the moon and
beyond ever gets off the ground. In my opinion. I doubt the robotic devices
will be sophisticated enough, fast enough to do more than act as assistants.

Brian

Bob Haller,
I totally agree that naked robotics are the way to go. Especially of
the somewhat micro robotics or VNs that can be quite robust and energy
efficient. We don't even have to bank bone marrow on behalf of such
robots, or having to fork out a dime for regular hours, overtime or
hazard pay, and just in case all goes running amuck, we get to keep the
kill (aka reset) switch.

Not that our NASA/Apollo wizards are not absolute saints and/or damn
near gods, and thus already evolved as being rad-hard because of their
incest cloned borg like DNA. However, our atmosphere and of the
magnetosphere combined is worth a bit more like 25 meters of water, if
not 50 meters worth because, the shielding density of water as compared
to the wossy average density of the atmosphere (which is so much better
off) is such that water being more than several thousand times greater
in density will in fact quite easily create loads of secondary/recoil
formations of hard-X-rays.

0.7" or 18 mm worth of lead cuts such hard-X-ray dosage in half. Do
the math?

The very last thing you'll want of your shielding to cause is be giving
birth to the likes of secondary/recoil hard-X-rays.
-
Brad Guth

Then who will pay for that? People are willing to pay for human beings
doing interesting stuff, and even pay for robots to do interesting
stuff if it leads to human beings following up on it. I don't want to
pay for your tele-voyeurism. You want to send space-cams hither and
yon, fine, so long as it's leading towards human extension into the
universe, otherwise don't bother asking me for a contribution to your
hobby interests

There have been lots of space mssions that dont lead to human folowup.
anything beyond mars for sure. you also mention the lunar rover had to
come before the mars rover.

sorry russia had automated rovers before or about the time of apollo.

man is nice to have, but designed right things like hubble dont require
human intervention. Plus although another hubble service sounds good if
it occurs, espically with the james webb telescope on indefinite hold,
it would of been cheaper to launch replacement hubbles over the years.

so you are picking my pocket.

adding humans to any spaace mission adds exponential cost increases
that kills most ideas

although I DO want to see humansd on mars!