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Atlantis pulling Hubble out of Orbit.

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Originally posted by: Muse
Misleading title. Hubble wasn't pulled out of orbit. Both the shuttle and Hubble remain in orbit. :roll:
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Atlantis pulled it out of it's orbit into Atlantis' orbit :roll:

Hopefully that was sarcastic.
 
Wow that is crazy. You have to really know what you're doing to be able to find stuff like that in space. I remember having a telescope as a kid, and just to try to find some object on a distant house to take a close look at it was not an easy task, and to find it I based myself on other objects nearby. When it comes to space, well, everything looks the same until you zoom in to what you want. Guessing there may be tricks to make it easier to find things such as knowing how all the planets are placed and the angle from earth etc. Either way, very impressive.

I want one of those telescopes. 😛
 
Originally posted by: drum
Originally posted by: Muse
Misleading title. Hubble wasn't pulled out of orbit. Both the shuttle and Hubble remain in orbit. :roll:
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Atlantis pulled it out of it's orbit into Atlantis' orbit :roll:

Hopefully that was sarcastic.
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I was kind of startled by the title too. I was like "what? they're seriously taking it down now?" as it's been so many years they keep saying they want to retire Hubble. Glad to see they're fixing it instead though, it's a remarkable piece of technology.
 
Originally posted by: Engineer
That's fvcken awesome!!! Wow!!!
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ABC network news tonight showed the best of the photos (the first one, on top). They didn't give credit, just said it was really neat.

It actually is a great photograph. If he doesn't get ripped off he should make some money from it.

 
A pic of the space shuttle, in space, taken by a guy sitting on earth, waiting for the shuttle to fly across the sun for a split second.
Absurd, Remarkable, and downright cool.
 
Originally posted by: Evadman
Transit duration: 0.8s. Transit bandwidth on Earth: 5.6 km. Altitude: 600 km. Speed: 7 km/s (25000 km/h). Length of Atlantis : 35m, length of Hubble : 13m. extracted from a series of 16 images (4 images/s) started 2s before the predicted time.
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Holy cow. What timing. Direct source to pics: http://www.astrosurf.com/legau...antis_hst_transit.html
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he knew exactly when it was coming... speed of light is delayed somewhat ya know? 😉
 
your topic title scared the shit outta me...
i though oh no... they couldnt fix it, so they are bringing it home to fix it and re deploy it later...
 
heh I enjoyed one of the posts on that page:
yeah awesome.. makes you actually relise the size of the sun.. the ship is just a dot compared to it..
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If only the sun wasn't 8 light minutes farther than the shuttle, you could see how big it really is.
 
Originally posted by: foghorn67
A pic of the space shuttle, in space, taken by a guy sitting on earth, waiting for the shuttle to fly across the sun for a split second.
Absurd, Remarkable, and downright cool.
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this
 
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