STS-125
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STS-125, or HST-SM4 (Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission 4), was the fifth and final Space Shuttle mission to the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). The launch of the Space Shuttle Atlantis occurred on May 11, 2009, at 2:01 pm EDT. Landing occurred on May 24 at 11:39 am EDT, with the mission lasting a total of just under 13 days.
Key facts
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- STS-125
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- Space Transportation System-125
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- Hubble docked in the cargo bay.jpg
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- The Hubble Space Telescope in Atlantis' payload bay
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- STS-125 patch.svg
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- STS-125 mission patch
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- Hubble servicing
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- NASA
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- 197
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- 12days, 21hours, 37minutes, 9seconds
- Spaceflight.launch_site
- Kennedy, LC-39A
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- UTC 2:01:56pmEST
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- UTC 8:39:05amPDT
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- Edwards, Runway22
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- 7
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- STS-125 crew portrait.jpg
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- From left to right: Massimino, Good, Johnson, Altman, McArthur, Grunsfeld and Feustel
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- gee
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35 sectionsContents
- Crew
- Mission history
- Mission payload
- IMAX movie
- Media
- Crew seat assignments
- Mission background
- Shuttle processing
- Launch delays
- Mission timeline
- May 11 (Flight day 1, launch)
- May 12 (Flight day 2)
- May 13 (Flight day 3)
- May 14 (Flight day 4)
- May 15 (Flight day 5)
- May 16 (Flight day 6)
- May 17 (Flight day 7)
- May 18 (Flight day 8)
- May 19 (Flight day 9)
- May 20 (Flight day 10)
- May 21 (Flight day 11)
- May 22 (Flight day 12)
- May 23 (Flight day 13)
- May 24 (Flight day 14, landing)
- Post landing
- Extra-vehicular activity
- Wake-up calls
- Contingency mission
- See also
- Media
- References
- Citations
- NASA
- ''The Universe in a Mirror''
- External links
STS-125, or HST-SM4 (Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission 4), was the fifth and final Space Shuttle mission to the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). The launch of the Space Shuttle Atlantis occurred on May 11, 2009, at 2:01 pm EDT. Landing occurred on May 24 at 11:39 am EDT, with the mission lasting a total of just under 13 days.
carried two new instruments to the Hubble Space Telescope, the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph and the Wide Field Camera 3. The mission also replaced a Fine Guidance Sensor, six gyroscopes, and two battery unit modules to allow the telescope to continue to function at least through 2014. The crew also installed new thermal blanket insulating panels to provide improved thermal protection, and a soft-capture mechanism that would aid in the safe de-orbiting of the telescope by a robotic spacecraft at the end of its operational lifespan. The mission also carried an IMAX camera with which the crew documented the progress of the mission for the 2010 IMAX film Hubble.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “STS-125” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.