Hubble IMAX: Educator Resources

  • Released Wednesday, February 3, 2010
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+ Build a Robotic Arm
+ Communication Station
+ Images from Hubble Simulation

Build a Robotic Arm

See a robotic arm at work in the "Servicing Mission 4 Essentials" site at http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/servicing/SM4/main/SM4_Essentials.html.

See a robotic arm at work in the "Servicing Mission 4 Essentials" site at http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/servicing/SM4/main/SM4_Essentials.html.

A team at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center designs and builds the special tools and aids astronauts need when they service the Hubble Space Telescope. Engineers describe working with the astronaut crew and developing tools to meet specific challenges as well as inventing new tools that will help NASA astronauts well into the future.

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Clips of footage taken aboard Atlantis during Servicing Mission 4 depicting the robotic arm at work grappling Hubble and then removing Wide Field Planetary Camera 2.

Communication Station

See how astronauts and engineers communicate to complete the mission by visiting the "Flight Day 2" gallery at http://sm4.gsfc.nasa.gov/multimedia/gallery10_space-day2.php

See how astronauts and engineers communicate to complete the mission by visiting the "Flight Day 2" gallery at http://sm4.gsfc.nasa.gov/multimedia/gallery10_space-day2.php

The Hubble would not be able to do what it does without the help of a small group of dedicated engineers and technicians at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. During HST Servicing Missions the Space Telescope Operations Control Room at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center becomes a very busy place.

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Images from Hubble Simulation

Explore how scientists receive the images captured by Hubble by visiting the "SM4 Interactive" site at http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/hubble_servicing/.

Explore how scientists receive the images captured by Hubble by visiting the "SM4 Interactive" site at http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/hubble_servicing/.

Description of improvements being made on the Hubble Space Telescope during Servicing Mission 4.

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For More Information

See http://www.nasa.gov/hubble

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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Music by Michael McClare

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