1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:01,969 [background music] 2 00:00:01,969 --> 00:00:05,205 You have now entered the Operations Support Room. This is 3 00:00:05,205 --> 00:00:08,509 where engineers and specialists run tests before sending new 4 00:00:08,509 --> 00:00:11,912 updates to Hubble. This ensures that these additions will not 5 00:00:11,912 --> 00:00:16,550 cause anything unexpected to happen on the spacecraft. Today 6 00:00:16,550 --> 00:00:19,286 engineers are testing potential changes to Hubble’s pointing 7 00:00:19,286 --> 00:00:23,724 control system. This room is also used to figure out what’s 8 00:00:23,724 --> 00:00:27,527 going on when the spacecraft isn’t operating as expected. The 9 00:00:27,527 --> 00:00:30,364 behavior could be caused by a hardware failure, a strike from 10 00:00:30,364 --> 00:00:33,200 a high-energy particle, a fluctuation in electrical 11 00:00:33,200 --> 00:00:37,804 current, or something else. Once they know the cause, the team 12 00:00:37,804 --> 00:00:40,140 figures out how to get the spacecraft back to normal 13 00:00:40,140 --> 00:00:44,778 operations. As you look around the room, you’ll see a world map 14 00:00:44,778 --> 00:00:48,615 on the large middle screen at the front. This shows engineers 15 00:00:48,615 --> 00:00:51,652 whether Hubble is in sunlight or darkness, where it is with 16 00:00:51,652 --> 00:00:54,821 respect to ground stations, and whether it is passing through a 17 00:00:54,821 --> 00:00:59,192 high-radiation zone. Another large display on the left of the 18 00:00:59,192 --> 00:01:02,362 front wall shows a ground-based image of what astronomical 19 00:01:02,362 --> 00:01:06,466 object Hubble is scheduled to be looking at. This same display is 20 00:01:06,466 --> 00:01:11,772 available to anyone on NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope website. 21 00:01:11,772 --> 00:01:14,308 In the back of the room is a model of Hubble in the space 22 00:01:14,308 --> 00:01:17,577 shuttle cargo bay. The model includes carriers that were 23 00:01:17,577 --> 00:01:20,080 mounted in the cargo bay to carry new instruments, 24 00:01:20,080 --> 00:01:23,517 spacecraft components, and astronaut tools during a 25 00:01:23,517 --> 00:01:28,288 servicing mission. In fact, during these missions, this room 26 00:01:28,288 --> 00:01:31,858 was fully staffed 24 hours a day, as engineers prepared 27 00:01:31,858 --> 00:00:00,000 Hubble for the installation of new hardware.