CBS News , the Hal Uplinger Millennium TV Network and ABS-PBS Millennium Broadcast. On Tuesday Discovery will approach the space telescope with a series of burns to match its orbit. Brown and Kelly will maneuver the orbiter to a point directly beneath Hubble, then move upward toward it. There, it can be rotated and tilted to enable space-walking astronauts to better access its equipment bays. Discovery is in an orbit with a high point of 367 statute miles and a low point of 352 miles.
All systems are in excellent condition.
The next STS-103 mission status report will be issued at 11 a.m. Tuesday.