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Astronauts Replace, Fix Broken Gyroscopes Of Hubble Telescope
May 15, 2009 9:17 p.m. EST
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Windsor Genova - AHN News Writer
Washington, D.C. (AHN) - The second in a series of spacewalk missions to repair and upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope was completed Friday after two astronauts spent more than seven hours mounting gyroscopes inside the orbiting observatory.
Astronauts Mike Massimino, who took part in servicing the Hubble in 2002, and Mike Good, a rookie spacewalker, did the tedious job while the telescope in the space shuttle Atlantis' cargo bay was orbiting at 17,500 mph and 350 miles above the Earth, according to NASA.
The five newly-installed gyroscopes will keep the telescope focused on objects as far as 200 miles away and as small as a penny. Hubble has a total six gyros and only one was working and not replaced.
Massimino and Good also replaced a new battery module of the telescope.
The two astronauts took an hour and a half longer to replace the gyros as planned making their spacewalk the eighth longest such feat in space history.
On Thursday, two other astronauts of the Atlantis placed the Hubble in the space shuttle's cargo bay using its robotic arm and started the first set of repairs and upgrades of the telescope.
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