NASA & The Hubble Space Telescope

Eugenia Gabrielov · #1 08-06-2004, 09:06

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 · #2 08-06-2004, 09:33

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

Kris Verdeyen · #3 08-06-2004, 10:36

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.

petek · #4 10-08-2004, 13:08

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 for the link)

Adam Y. · #5 10-08-2004, 14:36

Quote:

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.

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