Enhancing Hubble's Vision Service Missions That Expanded Our View of the Universe /

After a 20-year struggle to place a large, sophisticated optical telescope in orbit the Hubble Space Telescope was finally launched in 1990, though its primary mirror was soon found to be flawed. A dramatic mission in 1993 installed corrective optics so that the intended science program could finall...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Shayler, David J. (Autor), Harland, David M. (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
Edición:1st ed. 2016.
Colección:Space Exploration,
Temas:
Aerospace engineering.
Astronautics.
Astronomy.
Astronomy-Observations.
Lasers.
Aerospace Technology and Astronautics.
Astronomy, Cosmology and Space Sciences.
Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.
Laser.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Foreword by a Hubble servicing mission astronaut
  • Glossary. - List of Illustrations
  • List of tables
  • Prologue
  • Chapter 1: Servicing satellites - tools of the trade
  • Chapter 2: Troubled times
  • Chapter 3: Funding the plans and program
  • Chapter 4: Simulating the servicing
  • Chapter 5: STS-31 - The deployment mission
  • Chapter 6: STS-61 - Service Mission 1 - back on track
  • Chapter 7: Planning new science
  • Chapter 8: STS-82 - Service Mission 2 - return to an old friend
  • Chapter 9: STS-103 - Service Mission 3A - a mission split in two
  • Chapter 10: STS-109 - Service Mission 3B - the other half
  • Chapter 11: A fourth mission in doubt?
  • Chapter 12: STS-125 - Service Mission 4 - a final farewell
  • Chapter 13: The twilight years and beyond
  • Chapter 14: NASA at its best
  • Conclusion
  • Appendices
  • Appendix A: Hubble Service Mission data
  • Appendix B: The 'Hubblenauts': servicing mission crew members
  • Appendix C: Key personalities behind the scenes
  • Appendix D: A servicing chronology and timeline
  • References
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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