Fate of COSTAR

• Fate of COSTAR by NavySpaceFan on 24 Sep, 2008 15:47
• Just wondering what will happen to the COSTAR instrument when it returns on ATLANTIS next month?  I hope NASM snags it.
• #1 by Jim on 24 Sep, 2008 16:46
• NASA has first dibs and then NASM
• #2 by mtakala24 on 24 Sep, 2008 17:33
• 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/
• #3 by ETEE on 25 Sep, 2008 01:26
• Or you could have watched some of the NASA briefings!
• #4 by rdale on 25 Sep, 2008 01:34
• I watched and I don't recall that being mentioned... ETEE - what are they doing?
• #5 by DaveS on 25 Sep, 2008 02:23
• Quote from: rdale on 25 Sep, 2008 01:34

  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.
• #6 by rdale on 25 Sep, 2008 02:24
• I saw that - the question though was about what will happen when it's on the ground...