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Title: NASA reviews mission parameters for Hubble flight via FRR
Post by: Chris Bergin on 04/28/2009 04:17 am

http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2009/04/nasa-reviews-mission-parameters-for-hubble-flight-via-frr/ - by Chris Gebhardt

First of a run of FRR based articles leading up to launch.

Title: Re: NASA reviews mission parameters for Hubble flight via FRR
Post by: DavisSTS on 04/28/2009 01:44 pm

Good read Chris G :)

Title: Re: NASA reviews mission parameters for Hubble flight via FRR
Post by: ChrisGebhardt on 04/28/2009 05:19 pm

Thank you. :)

Title: Re: NASA reviews mission parameters for Hubble flight via FRR
Post by: robertross on 04/30/2009 11:29 pm

Nice write-up!

I'm still unhappy about ACS getting the bump. I sure hope they can find a way to squeeze it in, but with the difficulty of STIS, they will have their 'gloves' filled.

I know if it were me, I'd leave off the thermal blankets until the very end, and do ACS as a get-ahead.

Title: Re: NASA reviews mission parameters for Hubble flight via FRR
Post by: ChrisGebhardt on 04/30/2009 11:54 pm

Quote from: robertross on 04/30/2009 11:29 pm

Nice write-up!

I'm still unhappy about ACS getting the bump. I sure hope they can find a way to squeeze it in, but with the difficulty of STIS, they will have their 'gloves' filled.

I know if it were me, I'd leave off the thermal blankets until the very end, and do ACS as a get-ahead.

Thank you.

And I feel your pain, but WFC-3 is actually the instrument that will allow us to peer back to something like 600-million years after the Big Bang. ACS is important, but in the grand scheme of things, other instruments hold the potential to yield more useful data on what the scientists want out of Hubble in the next 5-years or so.

Title: Re: NASA reviews mission parameters for Hubble flight via FRR
Post by: marsavian on 05/11/2009 07:12 pm

A little about the Science ...

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/news/44721652.html