Sentence examples for servicing mission from inspiring English sources

Lawmakers also questioned Mr. O'Keefe's decision to cancel a shuttle servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope that would extend its life into the next decade.

These were the same objectives of a shuttle servicing mission that had been planned for 2005 but that was canceled by Mr. O'Keefe six months ago.

"NASA should take no action to preclude a shuttle servicing mission," Lanzerotti told reporters in a teleconference today.

Following a three year suspension of observations, an active cooling system featuring a reverse Brayton cycle micro-turbine was installed and integrated with NICMOS during HST servicing mission 3B.

But the panel hasn't provided nearly enough to cover the cost of flying the space shuttle, adding a Hubble shuttle servicing mission, and overruns on a host of programs such as the James Webb Space Telescope.

' STS-125, or HST-SM4 (Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission 4), was the fifth and final space shuttle servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope (HST).

Servicing Mission 3A, flown by Discovery, took place in December 1999, and was a split-off from Servicing Mission 3 after three of the six onboard gyroscopes had failed.

Servicing Mission 4, flown by Atlantis in May 2009, was the last scheduled shuttle mission for HST.

Their report urged "NASA should take no actions that would preclude a space shuttle servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope".

The collision of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter in 1994 was fortuitously timed for astronomers, coming just a few months after Servicing Mission 1 had restored Hubble's optical performance.

Hubble is scheduled for one more servicing mission in 2004.