{ "count": 31, "next": null, "previous": null, "results": [ { "id": 14792, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14792/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-05-27T20:57:00-04:00", "title": "Astrophysics Missions Vertical Video", "description": "This page collects vertical videos related to specific Astrophysics missions and their hardware or capabilities.", "hits": 98 }, { "id": 14680, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14680/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-01-09T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Astronauts Prepare for NICER Repair Training", "description": "On May 16, 2024, astronauts Don Pettit and Nick Hague participated in a training exercise at the NBL (Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory) at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. They were rehearsing activities related to repairing NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer), an X-ray telescope on the International Space Station.Before any spacewalk, astronauts practice and refine procedures in the NBL to simulate — as closely as possible on Earth — the conditions under which they’ll complete the task in space.In May 2023, damage to thin thermal shields protecting NICER allowed sunlight to reach its sensitive X-ray detectors. This saturated sensors and interfered with NICER’s X-ray measurements during orbital daytime.The NICER team developed five wedge-shaped patches to cover the largest areas of damage. The plan calls for astronauts to insert these patches into the instrument’s sunshades and lock them in place. || ", "hits": 62 }, { "id": 14678, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14678/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-01-07T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Astronauts Practice NICER Repair", "description": "On May 16, 2024, astronauts Don Pettit and Nick Hague practiced a repair for NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer), an X-ray telescope on the International Space Station. The training exercise took place in the (NBL) Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.Before any spacewalk, astronauts rehearse activities in the NBL to simulate — as much as possible — the conditions under which they’ll complete the task in space.In May 2023, NICER developed a “light leak,” where unwanted sunlight began entering the instrument. The damage allows sunlight to reach the detectors during the station’s daytime, saturating sensors and interfering with NICER’s X-ray measurements. The damage does not impact nighttime observations.The NICER team developed a plan to cover the largest areas of damage using five patches, each shaped like a piece of pie, to be inserted into the instrument’s sunshades and locked in place. || ", "hits": 68 }, { "id": 14679, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14679/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-12-13T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "NICER Caddy Preparation", "description": "In Spring 2024, scientists and engineers at NASA prepared and packed a patch kit for NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer), an X-ray telescope on the International Space Station.In May 2023, damage to thin thermal shields protecting NICER allowed sunlight to reach its sensitive X-ray detectors. This saturated sensors and interfered with NICER’s measurements during orbital daytime.The NICER team designed five wedge-shaped patches to cover the largest areas of damage. The plan calls for astronauts to insert these patches into the instrument’s sunshades and lock them in place. || ", "hits": 59 }, { "id": 14154, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14154/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2022-05-05T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "Hubble’s Astronauts", "description": "Astronauts have played a critical role in Hubble’s 30-year journey. The success and longevity of the Hubble Space Telescope would not have been possible without the service of the 32 astronauts who flew across six missions to launch and repair the telescope. This video celebrates the astronauts who have helped the Hubble mission to double its lifespan and subsequently led to countless significant discoveries, furthering our knowledge of the universe.For more information, visit https://nasa.gov/hubble. Music Credits: “Summer Body” by Josselin Bordat [SACEM] via Koka Media [SACEM], Universal Production Music France [SACEM], and Universal Production MusicAdditional Credits:Fresh Graceful Slideshow by Jorkiy via MotionArray || ", "hits": 13 }, { "id": 13977, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13977/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2021-10-29T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Tech on Deck series", "description": "The International Space Station photographed by Expedition 56 crew members from a Soyuz spacecraft after undocking.NExIS is NASA’s Exploration and In-space Services projects division. || iss_image.png (2614x1140) [4.5 MB] || iss_image_print.jpg (1024x446) [118.6 KB] || iss_image_web.png (320x139) [67.6 KB] || iss_image_thm.png (80x40) [9.6 KB] || ", "hits": 20 }, { "id": 13895, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13895/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2021-07-26T13:10:00-04:00", "title": "Deneen Lewis: Hubble Electrical Engineer", "description": "Deneen started working on the Hubble project as an electrical engineer in her first job out of school. She has been involved in three of the servicing missions to repair and upgrade Hubble. During the final space shuttle visit to Hubble, Servicing Mission 4 in 2009, she developed the bulk of the “command plan,” the carefully ordered procedure for dealing with Hubble’s electrical power system. She helped develop the procedures and computer code to send the commands that controlled Hubble’s batteries, as well as the commands that turned on and off the relays that allow power to flow to the batteries and other electronics.This video features Deneen going over her unique bond with the Hubble Space Telescope.For more information about the Hubble Space Telescope and its images, visit https://nasa.gov/hubble.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterGrace Weikert: Producer / EditorMusic Credits:“Luminance” by Joshua Benjamin Pacey [PRS] via Atmosphere Music Ltd. [PRS], and Universal Production Music. || ", "hits": 30 }, { "id": 13508, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13508/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2019-12-19T09:50:00-05:00", "title": "How Hubble’s Servicing Mission 3A Saved the Day", "description": "After Hubble’s important gyroscopes began to fail, a Hubble emergency was declared and Servicing Mission 3 was quickly split into two separate launches. So on December 19, 1999, the brave crew of Space Shuttle Discovery lifted off to switch out the broken gyros and get Hubble working again. The mission was an incredible success, and thanks to everyone involved with SM3A, the Hubble Space Telescope was able to do science once again and open the world to the mysteries of the universe. To celebrate SM3A’s 20 year anniversary, this video gives a quick and in-depth review on the accomplishments of this historic mission. The tools and the knowledge gleaned from SM3A are used today by astronauts on the International Space Station, and will be critical to NASA's future crewed missions to the Moon and Mars. For more information, visit: https://nasa.gov/hubbleMusic Credits: -”Run to the Hills” by Magnum Opus [ ASCAP ], Atmosphere Music Ltd. [ PRS], Universal Production Music-“Crystalised Fortune” by Paul Leonard Morgan [ PRS ], Universal Production Music-“History in Motion” by Fred Dubois [ SACEM ], Koka Media [ SACEM ], Universal Production Music || ", "hits": 33 }, { "id": 13180, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13180/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2019-05-21T09:55:00-04:00", "title": "Hubble Tool Time Episode 6 - Servicing Mission 4", "description": "Retired NASA astronaut John Grunsfeld hosts this six-part mini-series about the tools used on the Hubble Space Telescope servicing missions. Hubble was uniquely designed to be serviced in space so that components could be repaired and upgraded. Astronauts using custom-designed tools performed challenging spacewalks on five servicing missions from 1993 to 2009 to keep Hubble operating so that it could change our fundamental understanding of the universe.Join John, EVA engineer Ed Rezac, and astronaut trainer Christy Hansen in this episode of Hubble Tool Time to learn about creating a Fastener Capture Plate to capture 111 screws in order to repair the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph on Servicing Mission 4 in 2009.In addition to enabling Hubble's scientific discoveries, the tools developed by teams at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and tested in collaboration with the Johnson Space Center furthered NASA's human exploration capabilities. These tools and the knowledge gleaned from the Hubble servicing missions are used today by astronauts on the International Space Station, and will be critical to NASA's future crewed missions to the Moon and Mars.For more information, visit https://nasa.gov/hubble.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Katrina Jackson.Music credits: \"Wine On It\" by Kevin Blanc [SACEM]; KTSA Publishing SACEM; Gum Tapes; Killer Tracks Production Music. \"Breakthrough\" by Donn Wilerson [BMI]; Killer Tracks BMI; Killer Tracks Production Music. || ", "hits": 27 }, { "id": 13186, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13186/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2019-05-11T09:55:00-04:00", "title": "Servicing Mission 4 Overview", "description": "On May 11, 2009, the brave crew of Space Shuttle Atlantis lifted off to make NASA's Hubble Space Telescope more powerful than ever before. Hubble's Servicing Mission 4 (SM4) was the most ambitious and complicated to date. Changing out two major science instruments and repairing two others while in space helped to make this mission truly memorable. Thanks to the astronauts of SM4, the Hubble Space Telescope is at the apex of its power and capabilities. To celebrate SM4’s 10 year anniversary, this video gives a quick and in-depth review on the accomplishments of this historic mission. The tools and the knowledge gleaned from SM4 are used today by astronauts on the International Space Station, and will be critical to NASA's future crewed missions to the Moon and Mars. For more information, visit https://nasa.gov/hubble. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Paul Morris.Music credits: \"Aerial\" by Oliver Worth [PRS]; Killer Tracks Production Music || ", "hits": 55 }, { "id": 13160, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13160/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2019-04-03T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Hubble Archive - Servicing Mission 4, STS-125", "description": "Hubble'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. || ", "hits": 115 }, { "id": 12829, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12829/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-12-13T11:00:00-05:00", "title": "Hubble Celebrates 25 Years Of Servicing In Space", "description": "Live at the ROC: Hubble astronauts broadcast live from the Goddard Space Flight Center’s innovative Robotic Operations Center (ROC) as they discuss the history of Hubble servicing and how the future of satellite servicing is being made today. || 12829_Live_at_the_ROC.00001_print.jpg (1024x576) [70.8 KB] || 12829_Live_at_the_ROC.00001_searchweb.png (320x180) [73.3 KB] || 12829_Live_at_the_ROC.00001_thm.png (80x40) [5.8 KB] || 12829_Live_at_the_ROC.en_US.srt [124.2 KB] || 12829_Live_at_the_ROC.en_US.vtt [117.4 KB] || 12829_Live_at_the_ROC_lowres.mp4 (1280x720) [1.1 GB] || 12829_Live_at_the_ROC.webm (960x540) [1.7 GB] || 12829_Live_at_the_ROC.mp4 (1280x720) [6.7 GB] || ", "hits": 19 }, { "id": 12799, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12799/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-11-20T17:00:00-05:00", "title": "Robotic Refueling: Paving the Way for Exploration", "description": "One small box of technology is getting NASA one step closer to future exploration missions. The Robotic Refueling Mission 3, or RRM3, will prove technologies to transfer and store common spacecraft consumables in space.NASA has its eyes on human exploration, including venturing forward to the Moon and Mars. First, the agency must develop and perfect the technologies and capabilities needed for these missions.Affixed to the International Space Station, RRM3 will use a suite of three tools and the station’s robotic handyman, Dextre, to transfer and store cryogenic propellant (e.g., liquid methane). These capabilities have applications ranging from in-situ resource utilization to solar electric propulsion to maintaining long-term life support systems.RRM3 is set to launch to the space station onboard SpaceX’s 16th commercial resupply services mission. Once installed to the exterior of the station, the transfer and storage technologies will be put to the test.RRM3 builds on the first two phases of International Space Station technology demonstrations that tested tools, technologies and techniques to refuel and repair satellites in orbit. It is developed and operated by the Satellite Servicing Projects Division at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, under direction of NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate. Learn more about RRM3: https://sspd.gsfc.nasa.gov/RRM3.html || ", "hits": 66 }, { "id": 13060, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13060/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-09-28T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "360-Degree Virtual Tour of Hubble Mission Operations", "description": "Take a 360-degree, virtual tour of the Hubble Space Telescope’s home for mission operations, the Space Telescope Operations Control Center (STOCC) at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Begin in the lobby to learn about the orbiting spacecraft. Visit the Mission Operations Room, where the flight operators command and monitor Hubble. Step into the Operations Support Room, where the flight team investigates spacecraft anomalies and verifies new procedures. Then explore the exhibit hallway to view hardware that once flew in space aboard Hubble as well as tools that astronauts used to repair and upgrade the observatory.Music credit for all videos: \"Looking Forward\" by Daniel Backes [GEMA] and Peter Moslener [GEMA]; Ed.Berlin Production Music/Universal Production Music GmbH GEMA; Berlin Production Music; Killer Tracks Production MusicVideos must be uploaded to and played on a platform that supports 360-degree video in order to view in 360. You can view a playlist of these videos on YouTube in 360 here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_8hVmWnP_O0GvDYsfyr-4A3MWLfaHWnj || ", "hits": 59 }, { "id": 12993, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12993/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-07-11T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Testing Robotic Satellite Servicing Capabilities", "description": "This six-legged, 10 by 16-foot robot mimics how satellites move in space. NASA uses the hexapod robot to conduct precise tests of robotic satellite servicing operations.Sitting on top of the robot is a partial mockup of a satellite. Mounted to a panel close by, representing the payload deck of a robotic servicing spacecraft, is an advanced robotic arm. Together, these robots practice a calculated dance. As the hexapod moves, the robotic arm reaches out to grasp the mock satellite. This complex maneuver has never been attempted in space with a satellite that wasn’t designed to be approached. Lab demonstrations and testing will help NASA engineers perfect technologies for an autonomous (no humans involved) rendezvous in orbit.NASA is working to prove the combination of technologies necessary to robotically refuel a satellite in orbit that was not designed to be serviced. The same technologies developed for the Restore-L project will advance in-orbit repair, upgrade and assembly capabilities.The ground demonstrations take place in the Robotic Operations Center at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The hexapod robot was custom built for NASA by a New Hampshire-based company called Mikrolar.Download high resolution photos of the hexapod: https://www.flickr.com/gp/gsfc/9ccG21 || ", "hits": 27 }, { "id": 12798, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12798/", "result_type": "B-Roll", "release_date": "2018-06-20T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "RRM3 B-roll Highlights and Photos", "description": "The Robotic Refueling Mission 3, or RRM3, builds on the first two phases of International Space Station technology demonstrations that tested tools, technologies and techniques to refuel and repair satellites in orbit. Phase three, slated to launch to the space station later this year, will demonstrate innovative methods to store, transfer and freeze standard cryogenic fluid in space. These capabilities have several applications to future human exploration and satellite servicing missions.RRM3 is developed and operated by the Satellite Servicing Projects Division at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and managed by the Technology Demonstration Missionsprogram office within NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate.Learn more about RRM3: https://sspd.gsfc.nasa.gov/RRM3.html || ", "hits": 24 }, { "id": 40320, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/nicer/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2017-03-03T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "NICER", "description": "The Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer\n\nInstalled aboard the International Space Station in June 2017, NASA’s Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer provides high-precision measurements of neutron stars, objects containing ultra-dense matter at the threshold of collapse into black holes. NICER will also test, for the first time in space, technology that uses pulsars as navigation beacons.\n\n For more information visit the NICER website.", "hits": 199 }, { "id": 11822, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11822/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2016-04-14T12:55:00-04:00", "title": "Hubble Memorable Moments", "description": "4. Hubble Memorable Moments: Comet ImpactIn July 1994, the Hubble Space Telescope was poised to use its newly fixed optics to observe one of the most impressive astronomical events of the century - the 21 fragments of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 impacting Jupiter. But these observations almost didn’t happen.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel. || Hubble_Memorable_Moments.png (1276x717) [1004.3 KB] || Hubble_Memorable_Moments_print.jpg (1024x575) [98.6 KB] || Hubble_Memorable_Moments_web.png (320x180) [78.1 KB] || Hubble_Memorable_Moments_thm.png (80x40) [7.7 KB] || mem.jpg (320x180) [9.8 KB] || HubbleMemorableMoments_CometImpact.webm (1280x720) [52.1 MB] || HubbleMemorableMoments_CometImpact.mp4 (1280x720) [763.6 MB] || HubbleMemorableMoments_CometImpact.en_US.srt [9.6 KB] || HubbleMemorableMoments_CometImpact.en_US.vtt [9.6 KB] || HubbleMemorableMoments_CometImpact.mov (1280x720) [6.4 GB] || ", "hits": 54 }, { "id": 12023, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12023/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2016-03-23T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Restore-L: Robotic Satellite Servicing Project", "description": "The Restore-L project will develop technologies for on-orbit rendezvous with, inspection, repair and refueling of a client satellite, all of which are vital for a future satellite servicing capability. NASA is proactively transferring Restore-L technologies to all interested U.S. companies to help jumpstart a new domestic satellite servicing industry, and position the U.S. as the global leader of in-space satellite maintenance, upgrade and assembly.Learn more about Restore-L and NASA’s satellite servicing technologies: https://sspd.gsfc.nasa.gov/ For media inquiries, please contact: Clare Skelly at (301) 286-4994. || ", "hits": 44 }, { "id": 12024, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12024/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2015-10-12T10:30:00-04:00", "title": "President of South Korea to Visit NASA Goddard", "description": "As part of her visit to the United States, President Park Geun-hye of South Korea visited NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. on Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2015. She was welcomed by Goddard Center Director Christopher Scolese and the First Lady of Maryland, Yumi Hogan. She was also greeted by astronauts Scott Altman and Cady Coleman. President Park watched a personalized, pre-recorded message from astronaut Scott Kelly aboard the International Space Station. She also was briefed by Goddard’s Chief Scientist Dr. Jim Garvin about what NASA is learning about Mars and also NASA’s upcoming mission to explore Venus. In addition President Park learned about some of the things NASA is learning about the moon from Dr. Noah Petro, the deputy project scientist for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. President Park listened to several other presentations about NASA projects including: Laser Communication; GLOBE Program and Cosmic Ray Energies and Mass Investigation (CREAM) project. || SoKorean_President_Visit.jpeg (1280x720) [139.5 KB] || SoKorean_President_Visit_print.jpg (1024x576) [133.7 KB] || SoKorean_President_Visit_searchweb.png (180x320) [84.3 KB] || SoKorean_President_Visit_web.png (320x180) [84.3 KB] || SoKorean_President_Visit_thm.png (80x40) [6.7 KB] || APPLE_TV_SoKorean_President_Visit_VX-210366_appletv.m4v (1280x720) [41.4 MB] || YOUTUBE_HQ_SoKorean_President_Visit_VX-210366_youtube_hq.mov (1280x720) [496.6 MB] || WEBM_SoKorean_President_Visit_VX-210366.webm (960x540) [32.8 MB] || SoKorean_President_Visit_prores.mov (1280x720) [1.1 GB] || NASA_PODCAST_SoKorean_President_Visit_VX-210366_ipod_sm.mp4 (320x240) [14.9 MB] || ", "hits": 21 }, { "id": 10803, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10803/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2011-06-28T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Shuttle Era Concludes: Goddard has Always Been There", "description": "Goddard Space Flight Center has supported every shuttle mission providing tracking, data and voice communications. Goddard has also flown aboard with missions to the Hubble Space Telescope, the Shuttle Small Payloads Project and most recently the Robotic Refueling Mission (RRM). Goddard's hardware flew on over 75 percent of the 135 shuttle missions. || ", "hits": 21 }, { "id": 10439, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10439/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-05-18T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Senator Mikulski Celebrates Hubble Success", "description": "The Hubble Space Telescope has been with us for nearly two decades. In that time, its breathtaking images have captured peoples imaginations and its groundbreaking science has revealed some of the many secrets of our universe.After five spacewalks by the STS-125 mission to repair Hubble, commander Scott \"Scooter\" Altman confirmed a successful release of the Hubble telescope from the Space Shuttle Atlantis.Shortly after the deploy, Maryland Sen. Barbara Mikulski visited controllers in Goddard's Space Telescope Operations Control Center. Mikulski, who praised the Hubble team for their hard work and dedication during this mission.For more info: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2009/hubble_deploy.html || ", "hits": 19 }, { "id": 10259, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10259/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2008-09-29T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Vision. Hope. Triumph.", "description": "'They had to have vision; they had to have hope. And ultimately there was the triumph of seeing it come to fruition.' Heidi Hammel, a Senior Research Scientist from the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado, expresses her views on the past, present, and future of the Hubble Space Telescope and its upcoming repair mission.For more information go to http://www.nasa.gov/hubble. || ", "hits": 24 }, { "id": 10348, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10348/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2008-09-25T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "ACS Repair: The Challenge to Fix Hubble's Best Survey Camera", "description": "Shortly after NASA Administrator Michael Griffin announced that NASA would add a servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble's most prominent camera and most used instrument, died. The incredible engineering challenge to understand the problem, develop a strategy to fix ACS that astronauts could perform, create the tools and new circuit board components in an incredibly short time, could not have been accomplished if the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) hadn't failed a few years ealier. Goddard Engineers leveraged techniques they developed for STIS repair to fix ACS. || ", "hits": 20 }, { "id": 10350, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10350/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2008-09-10T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "STIS Repair: The Quest for Renewed Exploration", "description": "Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS), the most versatile spectrograph ever to fly on Hubble, ceased operations in August 2004 due to the failure of its power supply. In order to restore STIS to operational status, astronauts will perform a never-before-attempted on-orbit replacement of an electronics board inside STIS's main electronics box. On Earth this operation is relatively simple, but in space many challenges confront the astronauts as they work to replace the failed board including working to remove 111 tiny, non-captive screws with astronaut gloves. The Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) that will be added during Servicing Mission 4, and STIS are highly complementary and are very complimentary to each other providing scientists with a full set of spectroscopic tools for astrophysical research. The STIS instrument's accomplishments include determining the atmospheric composition of an exoplanet as well as spectra and images at ultraviolet and visible wavelengths of the Universe from our solar system out to cosmological distances. For complete transcript, click here. || G2008-014HD-STIS_Repair-720p30.00852_print.jpg (1024x576) [68.6 KB] || G2008-014HD-STIS_Repair-720p30_web.png (320x180) [204.7 KB] || G2008-014HD-STIS_Repair-720p30_thm.png (80x40) [16.2 KB] || STIS_Repair_AppleTV.webmhd.webm (960x540) [57.1 MB] || G2008-014HD-STIS_Repair-720p30.mov (1280x720) [133.2 MB] || STIS_Repair_YouTube.mov (1280x720) [69.8 MB] || STIS_Repair_AppleTV.m4v (960x540) [143.0 MB] || G2008-014HD-STIS_Repair-iPod-lg.m4v (640x360) [45.7 MB] || G2008-014HD-STIS_Repair-iPod-sm.m4v (320x180) [19.6 MB] || G2008-014HD-STIS_Repair.mpg (320x240) [63.3 MB] || ", "hits": 17 }, { "id": 10229, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10229/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2008-08-22T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "HST SM4 ACS Repair EVA", "description": "Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) produced many of the most popular and dramatic images from the Hubble Space Telescope over the last few years, but in January 2007 the instrument had a serious power failure which caused the three observing channels, the Wide Field Channel, The Solar Blind Channel and the High Resolution channel, to cease operation. The Solar Blind Channel was returned to service in February 2007. This animation shows how the Servicing Mission 4 astronauts will attempt to repair the Advanced Camera for Surveys by replacing the CCD electronics box in the Wide Field Channel and power this box with a replacement low voltage power supply. If this repair is successful, ACS will again provide the most sensitive images available at visible and near-infrared wavelengths. || ", "hits": 27 }, { "id": 10230, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10230/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2008-08-22T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "HST SM4 STIS Repair EVA", "description": "Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS), the most versatile spectrograph ever to fly on Hubble, ceased operations in August 2004 due to failure of its power supply. In order to restore STIS to operational status, astronauts may attempt an on-orbit replacement of one electronics board inside one of its main electronics boxes. The Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) that will be added during Servicing Mission 4, and STIS are highly complementary and would work effectively together to provide a full set of spectroscopic tools for astrophysical research. The STIS instrument's accomplishments include determining the atmospheric composition of an exoplanet as well as spectra and images at ultraviolet and visible wavelengths of the Universe from our solar system out to cosmological distances. || ", "hits": 36 }, { "id": 10271, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10271/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2008-08-19T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "HST SM4 - Change Out Animation", "description": "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 || ", "hits": 13 }, { "id": 10321, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10321/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2008-08-01T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "HST SM4 Resource Reel v2.0", "description": "1. Hubble Space Telescope Service Mission 4 Animation: A collection of several animations showing the Hubble Space Telescope orbiting Earth and in space shuttle Atlantis cargo bay. All animations depict the Hubble Space Telescope in its current (July 2008) configuration. || 1-resource-hstsm4animation-resourcereelreference_MPEG-100852_print.jpg (1024x768) [98.4 KB] || 1-resource-hstsm4animation-resourcereelreference_MPEG-1_web.png (320x240) [107.6 KB] || 1-resource-hstsm4animation-resourcereelreference_MPEG-1_thm.png (80x40) [16.4 KB] || 1-resource-hstsm4animation-resourcereelreference_MPEG-1_searchweb.png (320x180) [85.3 KB] || 1-resource-hstsm4animation-resourcereelreference_MPEG-1.webmhd.webm (960x540) [12.8 MB] || 1-resource-hstsm4animation-resourcereelreference_MPEG-1.mpg (320x240) [63.5 MB] || ", "hits": 31 }, { "id": 10318, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10318/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2008-07-26T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "HST SM4 Extended Resource Reel v2.0", "description": "Full HD Resource ReelThis resource reel includes all the clips shown below on this page. || G2008-009HD-HST_SM4_Footage_Resource_Reel_v2.0_Reel_1_1.00001_print.jpg (1024x576) [99.1 KB] || G2008-009HD-HST_SM4_Footage_Resource_Reel_v2.0_Reel_1.mov (1280x720) [57.2 GB] || G2008-009HD-HST_SM4_Footage_Resource_Reel_v2.0_Reel_1_1.mp4 (1280x720) [4.1 GB] || G2008-009HD-HST_SM4_Footage_Resource_Reel_v2.0_Reel_1_1.webm (1280x720) [454.7 MB] || G2008-009HD-HST_SM4_Footage_Resource_Reel_v2.0_Reel_1.webm [0 bytes] || ", "hits": 57 }, { "id": 10224, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10224/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2008-05-20T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "HST Advance Camera For Surveys Repair Scenario", "description": "Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) was responsible for many of Hubble's most impressive images of deep space. In January 2007, ACS experienced an electrical short that put two of its three cameras out of commission. ACS contains a trio of cameras: the wide field camera, the high-resolution camera, and the solar blind camera. Each performed a specific function.This animation depicts the procedure planned to repair ACS. Astronauts will remove 4 circuit boards from inside the instrument, install a redesigned pack containing new circuit boards and then re-route the power going to the instrument. || ", "hits": 13 } ] }