Animation shows the change out of instruments and hardware planned during the Hubble Servicing Mission 4. The instrument change out order in the animation order is as follows: 1. Battery replacement 2. Wide Field Planetary Camera replaced with new Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) 3. Rate Sensor Units replaced (contain 2 gyros each) 4. COSTAR instrument replaced with new Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) 5. Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) repair (circuit boards replaced and new power box added) 6. Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph repair (cover removed, circuit board replaced, new main electronics box cover added) 7. Fine Guidance Sensor replaced 8. Soft Capture Mechanism added
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GSFC_20080819_HST_m10271_Change_Out
Date Created
August 19, 2008
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GSFC
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video
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Goddard Space Flight Center
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