Enhancing Hubble's Vision Service Missions That Expanded Our View of the Universe
After a 20-year struggle to place a large, sophisticated optical telescope in orbit the Hubble Space Telescope was finally launched in 1990, though its primary mirror was soon found to be flawed. A dramatic mission in 1993 installed corrective optics so that the intended science program could finall...
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| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2016, 2016
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2016 |
| Series: | Space Exploration
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Foreword by a Hubble servicing mission astronaut
- Glossary. - List of Illustrations
- List of tables
- Prologue
- Chapter 1: Servicing satellites – tools of the trade
- Chapter 2: Troubled times
- Chapter 3: Funding the plans and program
- Chapter 4: Simulating the servicing
- Chapter 5: STS-31 – The deployment mission
- Chapter 6: STS-61 – Service Mission 1 – back on track
- Chapter 7: Planning new science
- Chapter 8: STS-82 – Service Mission 2 – return to an old friend
- Chapter 9: STS-103 – Service Mission 3A – a mission split in two
- Chapter 10: STS-109 – Service Mission 3B – the other half
- Chapter 11: A fourth mission in doubt?
- Chapter 12: STS-125 – Service Mission 4 – a final farewell
- Chapter 13: The twilight years and beyond
- Chapter 14: NASA at its best
- Conclusion
- Appendices
- Appendix A: Hubble Service Mission data
- Appendix B: The ‘Hubblenauts’: servicing mission crew members
- Appendix C: Key personalities behind the scenes
- Appendix D: Aservicing chronology and timeline
- References
- Bibliography
- Index