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Post Retrieval Analyses
Project Responsibilities
The Hubble Space Telescope Flight Systems and Servicing Project at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center was responsible for organizing the HST first servicing mission and they assembled the HST Returned Hardware Evaluation Team. Team participation is as follows:
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Code 442 - HST Project Management
- NASA Headquarters - Program Management
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Code 300/Unisys - Materials Branch
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Code 717 - Optics Branch
- European Space Agency - Solar Arrays
- NASA Lewis Research Center - Solar Array Materials
- NASA Langley Research Center - Micrometeoroid Impacts
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Wide Field Planetary Camera
- University of Wisconsin - High Speed Photometer
- Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory - Cosmic Ray Analysis
- Swales and Associates - Contamination Materials
- Lockheed Missiles and Space - Orbital Replacement Units
- Boeing Aerospace Operations - Data Archiving
The HST Flight Systems and Servicing Project identified the following priorities when developing an integrated post-retrieval analysis plan for the HST hardware:
- Understanding the cause of anomalies that occurred to HST hardware
- Preserving reusable hardware for refurbishment and requalification
- Understanding how HST hardware survived in the space environment with applications to future HST hardware
- Understanding the metrology of returned hardware
- Providing the NASA community with available samples, data, and results
Experience from analyses of other returned space flight hardware were important in the HST hardware evaluation plans. The Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF) special investigation groups helped to develop and carry out analyses in areas including meteoroids & debris, systems, and materials.
Hardware Process Flow / Logistics
Follow this link to see a flow chart that visually explains the process flow or hardware logistics. A 0.5 M jpg image is also available.
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