Hubble Instruments Slated for On-Orbit 'Surgery'
Monday, July 28, 2008 - 15:56
in Astronomy & Space
When astronauts visit the Hubble Space Telescope in October 2008 for its final servicing mission, they will be facing a task that has no precedence – performing on-orbit 'surgery' on two ailing science instruments that reside inside the telescope – the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) and the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS). read more