International Satellite Servicing Missions Workshop

[rdale]

Live audio streaming starts Wednesday (3/24) morning...

http://servicingstudy.gsfc.nasa.gov/

http://servicingstudy.gsfc.nasa.gov/workshop_1_agenda.htm

[cozmicray]

Lets make sure there is nothing said about the Hubble Robotic Service and DeOrbit Mission HRSDM that only got to PDR and DEXTRE which sits on the ISS doing nothing!

How many international programs are even including robotic
interfaces on the space hardware?  Too expensive?

What Space hardware does NASA have to host a repair mission?

Why aren't the greatest users of space - the military/intelligence community - NOT embracing service/repair.

Without a national space program -- how can one imagine on orbit
repair/service?   Perhaps Commercial On-orbit repair/service!!

I'm sure the "US congressional space systems engineering committee" will dictate what is to be done!

[rdale]

Uh, okay.

Anyways - live streaming is now available! Pretty interesting so far, or you can follow the updates on Twitter with NASA_Hubble

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/satellite-servicing-mission-workshop-2010

[rdale]

PS If you login to the chatroom, they have experts from the Hubble team there ready to talk HST or anything else. The audio will be recorded and archived in case you miss a talk.

[rdale]

John Grunsfeld was the featured speaker this morning (archive at the link.)

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When Master Alarm went off in Shuttle Grunsfeld thought "Can't believe we're not going to make it to Hubble" not "we're not gonna make it"