Space Shuttle Atlantis lifts off on mission STS-125, or HST-SM4 Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission 4 At 2:01:56 p.m EDT Monday, Space Shuttle Atlantis lifted off above Florida on its two day journey to the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) to embark on repairs. During the 11 day repair mission to the HST, astronauts will embark on five spacewalks, installing two new instruments and repairing two others. The two new instruments are the US$126 million Wide Field Camera 3 and the $81 million Cosmic Origins Spectrograph. The crew has set out to repair the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph, Advanced Camera for Surveys which are malfunctioning. The mission will also see the installation of a new Science Instrument Command and Data Handling Unit to replace the existing one.
Space Shuttle Atlantis lifts off on mission STS-125, or HST-SM4 Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission 4 At 2:01:56 p.m EDT Monday, Space Shuttle Atlantis lifted off above Florida on its two day journey to the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) to make repairs. During the 11 day repair mission to the HST, astronauts will perform five spacewalks, installing two new instruments and repairing two others. The two new instruments are the US$126 million Wide Field Camera 3 and the $81 million Cosmic Origins Spectrograph. The crew has set out to repair the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph, Advanced Camera for Surveys which are malfunctioning. The mission will also see the installation of a new Science Instrument Command and Data Handling Unit to replace the existing one.
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