HST SM4 - Change Out Animation
Animation shows the change out of instruments and hardware planned during the Hubble Servicing Mission 4. The instrument change out order in the animation order is as follows:
1. Battery replacement
2. Wide Field Planetary Camera replaced with new Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3)
3. Rate Sensor Units replaced (contain 2 gyros each)
4. COSTAR instrument replaced with new Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS)
5. Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) repair (circuit boards replaced and new power box added)
6. Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph repair (cover removed, circuit board replaced, new main electronics box cover added)
7. Fine Guidance Sensor replaced
8. Soft Capture Mechanism added
This animation shows the components that will be removed, installed and added to the Hubble Space Telescope during Servicing Mission 4.
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
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Animator
- Pete Alea (ATK)
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Producer
- Michael McClare (HTSI)
Release date
This page was originally published on Tuesday, August 19, 2008.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:55 PM EDT.
Series
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[HST]
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[HST: WFPC2]
ID: 655Wide-Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) was installed in Dec 1993 and used to obtain high resolution images of astronomical objects. This camera was removed in the last servicing mission so it is no longer in service.
This dataset can be found at: http://www.stsci.edu/hst/wfpc2/wfpc2_diag.html
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