Hubble Space Telescope (HST)
A team led by Lockheed Martin is providing support to the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in the planning, training and implementation of Servicing Mission 4 (SM-4) to the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), that successfully launched on May 11.
The Lockheed Martin team includes individuals from Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Lockheed Martin Information Systems & Global Services, Computer Sciences Corporation, EaglePicher Industries, Goodrich Corporation, Honeywell, Jackson and Tull, L-3 Communications, Orbital Sciences Corporation, and Raytheon Corporation. The team is responsible for:
• Spacecraft Systems Engineering and Design Integration
• Payload Integration and Test at GSFC and Kennedy Space Center
• Astronaut Training Support
• Replacement Satellite Hardware Design and Development
• Space Shuttle Support Equipment Design and Development
• Spacecraft Mission Operations and Control
• Ground Software
• Spacecraft Flight Software
• Servicing Mission Planning and Timeline Development.
Hubble Space Telescope (HST) was launched on the Space Shuttle Discovery in 1990. It was built and integrated at the Lockheed Martin Space Systems facility in Sunnyvale, Calif. Hubble sees the universe in visible light, with additional sensitivities in the UV and IR. It is the only one of the Great Observatories designed for servicing by the space shuttle, and four visits by astronaut crews have enhanced HST’s science capabilities with new instruments and allowed the replacement of limited-life components. This year astronauts will put in a new camera and spectrograph, replace gyros and batteries, install an electronics panel, and leave the telescope with greater capabilities than ever before. Lockheed Martin personnel help manage the day-to-day spacecraft operations as well as provide support for telescope servicing missions.
In nearly 19 years of operation, Hubble has contributed to the discovery that the expansion rate of the universe is accelerating; provided the deepest view yet into the universe’s distant past, provided the first direct measurements of the threedimensional distribution of dark matter in space, and peered into nearby regions of star birth in the Milky Way galaxy, revealing flattened disks of gas and dust that are the likely birthplaces of new planets.
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