Shuttle Atlantis has launched on her flagship mission to the Hubble Space Telescope, as STS-125 completed smooth S0007 (Launch Countdown) operations on Monday. Atlantis’ External Tank (ET-130) enjoyed an issue-free tanking, bar the need for the Orbiter Project Office to issue a waiver for a small amount of ice that built up on the LH2 umbilical.
With Space Shuttle Atlantis and her crew now less than two weeks away from launch…
With less than one month to go before the launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis’ flagship…
With Space Shuttle Atlantis undergoing her second round of pad processing for the much anticipated…
Atlantis’ trip to service the Hubble Space Telescope remains on track for May, although another…
The complicated task of remotely switching the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) over to its Science…
STS-125 has been given a new “work-to” launch date of February 17, pending a November…
As preparations continue to switch the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) over to its back-up control…
As NASA and the SSP (Space Shuttle Program) refine their orbiter schedules, preparations for STS-125’s…
A major failure of the “Side A” control system on the Hubble Space Telescope has delayed…
With the crew deep in mission training for October’s STS-125 mission to service the Hubble…
The Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF) has completed a re-evaluation of the delivery dates for ET-127…
Atlantis is beginning her five month OPF (Orbiter Processing Facility) flow, in readiness for the…
The official decision on the future of Atlantis has finally been made, as she avoids…
NASA has updated the status of its Large Area Repair (LAR) capability, which is being…
NASA has drawn up extensive plans for the mission they hope they’ll never have to…
STS-126 is the latest mission to have been put through the FDRD (Flight Definition and…
STS-125 – the final Hubble serving mission – has unexpectedly moved up NASA’s shuttle schedule,…
The Large Area Repair (LAR) capability has been approved for development by NASA’s PRCB (Program…
NASA managers are continuing to build their roadmap for Pad 39B’s transition to Ares, in…
