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Title: Fate of COSTAR
Post by: NavySpaceFan on 09/24/2008 03:47 pm

Just wondering what will happen to the COSTAR instrument when it returns on ATLANTIS next month?  I hope NASM snags it.

Title: Re: Fate of COSTAR
Post by: Jim on 09/24/2008 04:46 pm

NASA has first dibs and then NASM

Title: Re: Fate of COSTAR
Post by: mtakala24 on 09/24/2008 05:33 pm

The COSTAR is the corrective optics package, right? What do the instruments use for corrections after it is removed? Computer processing onboard or on the ground?

edit: a-ha, should have googled before posting. The instruments have integrated correction assemblies instead of a common one.
http://hubblesite.org/the_telescope/nuts_.and._bolts/optics/costar/

Title: Re: Fate of COSTAR
Post by: ETEE on 09/25/2008 01:26 am

Or you could have watched some of the NASA briefings!

Title: Re: Fate of COSTAR
Post by: rdale on 09/25/2008 01:34 am

I watched and I don't recall that being mentioned... ETEE - what are they doing?

Title: Re: Fate of COSTAR
Post by: DaveS on 09/25/2008 02:23 am

Quote from: rdale on 09/25/2008 01:34 am

I watched and I don't recall that being mentioned... ETEE - what are they doing?

They have their own built-in corrective optics something the earlier instruments didn't. So now COSTAR is 100% obsolete and can be removed and replaced by something more usefull than a useless corrective optics package.

Title: Re: Fate of COSTAR
Post by: rdale on 09/25/2008 02:24 am

I saw that - the question though was about what will happen when it's on the ground...