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Astronauts start camera swap on Hubble - The Hubble Telescope is getting a new camera and several other repairs as astronauts begin their spacewalks.

Posted: 14th May 2009
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Image Credit: NASA/Fletcher Hildreth.
Astronauts have started to remove the fifteen-year-old camera from the Hubble Telescope.
 
Grunsfeld and Feustel are the two astronauts doing the first of five spacewalks to make repairs on the Hubble Telescope. They will be changing the camera, which is the size of a small piano for a new wide-field and planetary camera.
 
The old camera has taken over 135,000 observations and according to reports when back on land will be sent to the Smithsonian Institution.


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Mike Otley
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15 May 2009 - 9:54 AM

LOL!! Here on Terra Firma we take pictures/images...

In space they take 'observations'. There's posh in'it!

(Fascinatin' stuff though...)

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15 May 2009 - 9:56 AM

MattGrayson
15 May 2009 - 9:56 AM

Took fifteen years to come up with an upgrade, can you imagine that on the high street? lol

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