{"id":346,"date":"2009-05-15T16:44:18","date_gmt":"2009-05-15T16:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techfragments.com\/?p=346"},"modified":"2022-07-01T19:59:33","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T19:59:33","slug":"atlantis-links-up-to-hubble-for-repairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techfragments.com\/atlantis-links-up-to-hubble-for-repairs\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlantis Links Up To Hubble For Repairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Space Shuttle Atlantis has finally caught up with the Hubble Space Telescope after following it for several hours. The &#8220;link up&#8221; between the Space Shuttle and Hubble was a very delicate one as the two were flying through space at 17,200 MPH, 300 miles above the Earth&#8217;s surface.<\/p>\n<p>The robotic arm of the shuttle grappled the telescope at 1:14 PM EDT today. The telescope will be latched to a high-tech, lazy Susan device known as the Flight Support System for the duration of the servicing work.<\/p>\n<p>While the shuttle has the telescope in its &#8216;hands&#8217; the STS-125 crew will perform five separate spacewalks to repair, restore, and renew the Hubble Space Telescope. Their first spacewalk will take place tomorrow live on NASA TV.<\/p>\n<p>If all of the repairs are successful, the Hubble Telescope should remain operational without issues until at least 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Space Shuttle Atlantis has finally caught up with the Hubble Space Telescope after following it for several hours. The &#8220;link up&#8221; between the Space Shuttle and Hubble was a very delicate one as the two were flying through space at 17,200 MPH, 300 miles above the Earth&#8217;s surface. The robotic arm of the shuttle grappled&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techfragments.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techfragments.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techfragments.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techfragments.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techfragments.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/techfragments.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techfragments.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techfragments.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techfragments.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}