Keith Walyus
Replaced 19 year old batteries.
Replaced FGS
Replaced insulation.
Every task got done. Aliveness and functional tests in work. All aliveness tests OK. Functional test of batteries in progress. Functional test of FGS to come.
Charging of the new batteries overnight.
After release tomorrow many activation, configuration and testing tasks to do. Will be 5-6 months before the telescope is fully commissioned and back to normal operation.
Expect first new images to be released in September
General euphoria in STOCC.
Batteries and FGS have now passed aliveness AND functional tests so that makes complete success for the mission so far. Just remains to chuck it back into space and have it do its thing.
Q: Last spacewalk out of shuttle airlock. Last satellite servicing. Feelings on that milestone?
That's something I never fully realized either until I started reading the last few posts. That is a sad moment. Well, what better way to end it than on a high note!
This transcript from the CBS e-mail is funny:
"OK. I'm sick," Grunsfeld said. "It kind of knocked off the end cap."
THAT'S what it was...
At first when I heard that, I thought he hurt himself, but then dismissed it as me hearing something...
I can totally imagine how he must have felt, doing all that work and then breaking something. I'm glad he had a buddy there to cheer him up, and MCC saying it all seems to be working okay for receive, and no reason why it wouldn't in transmit. That's what I call family.
Keith Walyus
Glad to see that you had as much trouble grabbing a good screenshot of him as I did (over in
the HD thread). That guy is blinking constantly
Incredible mission, great coverage here at NSF, I'm exhausted just from keeping up :/ ... And Real Work has piled up to stratospheric heights during the past 8 days.
Thanks for the weekend coverage everyone... back now to civilization and high speed internent. Here are a few live pictures coming in from the shuttle payload bay... just some nice ones of the bay and Hubble to end the day... The second one I believe is where the little bit of debris was located...
coming up from underneath hubble
Here is the low gain antenna that I believe was the one that had the cover knocked off... all back in place
Adding my thanks for the coverage of these historic EVA's.
Excellent job guys.
Excellent site Chris.
Simply Way cool shots... now heading into orbital night..
The glove debris - Extreme closeup and larger picture to give context of where it is..
Great coverage, thanks everybody!
And of course a great mission, but a bit bittersweet :cry:
