New camera installed on Hubble
Astronauts from the Shuttle Atlantis successfully replaced the primary camera unit onboard the Hubble telescope today. Well done, gents!
Two astronauts used brute force to free a stubborn bolt Thursday during the first of five spacewalks planned to upgrade and repair the Hubble Space Telescope.
John Grunsfeld and Andrew Feustel also swapped out an old camera for a new one the size of a baby grand piano, the first step to making Hubble more powerful than ever.
I understand they’re replacing the data encoder tomorrow. With these improvements, we should have the Hubble around taking pics for another decade or so.
