Hubble Instruments Slated for On-Orbit 'Surgery'
Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 13:14
in Astronomy & Space
When astronauts visit the Hubble Space Telescope in October 2008 for its final servicing mission, they will be facing a task that has no precedence - performing on-orbit ‘surgery` on two ailing science instruments that reside inside the telescope - the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) and the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS).