Comments on: Procedure to Repair Hubble Begins Wednesday

By: floor jack

floor jack — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 12:16:04 +0000

I have to say, that I could not agree with you in 100%, but that's just my opinion, which could be wrong.
p.s. You have an awesome template . Where did you find it?

By: Sakib

Sakib — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 23:23:28 +0000

There will be a Hubble number 2: the James Webb Space Telescope!

By: btw

btw — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 22:12:53 +0000

Whatever success or failure follow the activities on the ground, I think the construction of a Hubble II would provide the most value. It would last longer and likely have capabilities the first Hubble will never have.

By: Rey

Rey — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:44:36 +0000

I was supposed to say "Bring back Hubble on Earth and sell it on Ebay " …and generate some publicity over it to increase the bid to millions (or billions) from private collectors ~ at least, Hubble is still earning some revenue.

By: Sakib

Sakib — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:08:26 +0000

I really hope Hubble doesn't blow up, then there'd be no servicing mission! Is it weird I'm more excited about the actual servicing mission rather than the badass images and science that'll be done?

By: Jarod

Jarod — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:20:52 +0000

Good luck to Hubble and the crew working on her!

By: Kbutler

Kbutler — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:14:10 +0000

Hey Jon (Hanford ) ask the Russians. For 60 million or so they'll go, pickup and probably fix up.

By: Kbutler

Kbutler — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:11:35 +0000

Here's some new words NASA:
Preventive maintenance & procedure verification.

Let's look at the practicality of this backup system on the Hubble. (I'll bet they have many backup systems they never test .) First, we test it all to hell on the ground, then we launch, wait 18 or so years until the Hubble quits, then we fire up the backup. Oh yeah….

My IT department has done that to me many times.
They "say" they make a backup everynight.
They say "don't worry, be happy".
Three times we asked for a system restore and 3 times IT failed. Oh yeah, one time they restored my system to a state 3 months old. Good Job. Some of my people must have done Hubble.

What is needed is periodic testing of all systems BEFORE they crap out. That will not catch 100% of startup glitches but it will catch some.
That will not negate the need for backups or restoration but it will keep the ground crews fresh on what they have to do.

It looks like now, one of them reads the book written 20 or so years ago and another presses the keys.

"Let's see, Orville. Says here in the book on page 33 in, uh, step 42 to 'modulate the quimquate by fibrolating the haversovers.' That don't sound so good."

By: Jon Hanford

Jon Hanford — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:45:41 +0000

Hey Rey, great suggestion, but what's going to go up to get it? Shuttle fleet is being retired in 2010 (along with several major problems with bringing it back with the shuttle).

By: Rey

Rey — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 10:53:39 +0000

Can't they put the Hubble up on the Smithsonian museum when it retires, rather than letting it burn-up in the atmosphere?

By: Jon Hanford

Jon Hanford — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 01:46:06 +0000

Go, go Gadget! Fingers crossed that this fix takes so the already tight observation schedule can resume. I'm with Astrofiend….. You can do it!

By: Astrofiend

Astrofiend — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 01:27:57 +0000

Go my little Hubble Space Telescope… You can do it!