CATS: Crew Aids and Tools
A team at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center designs and builds the special tools and aids astronauts need when they service the Hubble Space Telescope. Engineers describe working with the astronaut crew and developing tools to meet specific challenges as well as inventing new tools that will help NASA astronauts well into the future.
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Aerospace Airlock Astronaut Astrophysics Atlantis Batteries Cargo Bay Carriers CATS Cleanroom COS Crew Aids and Tools Edited Feature Engineers Fastener Capture Plate FCP Flight Support System FSIPE Goddard Space Flight Center HDTV HST Hubble Space Telescope Justin Cassidy Mike Massimino Mini-power Tool MPT MULE Narrated NBL ORUC PGT Servicing Mission 4 Shuttle Bay SLIC SM4 SMC Space Shuttle Spacecraft Testing WFC3 WSIPE
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Music by Michael McClare
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- Michael McClare (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
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- Michael McClare (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
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- Michael McClare (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
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- Michael McClare (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
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HST
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.
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ID: 13160 Produced Video
Hubble Archive - Servicing Mission 4, STS-125
Read moreHubble's fifth and final servicing mission, Servicing Mission 4, launched on May 11, 2009 on Space Shuttle Atlantis as part of the STS-125 mission.During SM4, two new scientific instruments were installed – the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) and Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3). Two failed instruments, the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) and the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), were brought back to life by the first ever on-orbit repairs. With these efforts, Hubble has been brought to the apex of its scientific capabilities. To prolong Hubble's life, new batteries, new gyroscopes, a new science computer, a refurbished fine guidance sensor and new insulation on three electronics bays were also installed over the 12-day mission with five spacewalks. ||
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