Atlantis' and crew return to Hubble to upgrade the telescope.
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NASA has adjusted the target launch date for the last mission to Hubble this fall.
When astronauts return to Hubble for Servicing Mission 4 this fall, they will be revamping and reenergizing the telescope for the final leg of its journey. One of the tasks they aim to complete is the installation of New Outer Blanket Layers, or NOBLs.
Flight hardware and science instruments are readied for the last mission to Hubble.
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of a nebula near star cluster NGC 2074 on Aug. 10, 2008, the day before the observatory completed its 100,00th orbit of Earth.
When astronauts return to Hubble for Servicing Mission 4 this fall, they will be revamping and reenergizing the telescope for the final leg of its journey. One of the tasks they aim to complete is the installation of New Outer Blanket Layers, or NOBLs.
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.
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