NASA & The Hubble Space Telescope

[Eugenia Gabrielov]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/02/robotic_fix/

I searched for this on Chief, but was surprised to find nothing. Here is a very interesting article regarding the Hubble Telescope and retrieving it and whatnot. And it has robots! Who'll be the first FIRST team to volunteer?

[Mike Ciance]

sounds interesting, i'll see if I can come up with anything :)

[Kris Verdeyen]

NASA's Robonaut (http://vesuvius.jsc.nasa.gov/er_er/html/robonaut/robonaut.html) is one of the robots being considered for the task. Many of Robonaut's engineers work with team 118, the Robonauts. I'm not sure where they got the name.

http://vesuvius.jsc.nasa.gov/er_er/html/robonaut/Robonaut_files/barrel63.jpg

[petek]

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/afp/20040809/hubble.html

Wouldn't that make an interesting "game"? Imagine all the "what if" scenarios those engineers are going to have to cover!

(thanks to Slashdot (http://slashdot.org) for the link)

[Adam Y.]

NASA's Robonaut is one of the robots being considered for the task. Many of Robonaut's engineers work with team 118, the Robonauts. I'm not sure where they got the name
I wonder what the odds are of this actually being successful. I read a few articles that said it would be awfully hard to repair the telescope only using robots. The astronauts on previous missions had a hard time trying to fix problems that suddenly appeared during repairs.