STS-82

**STS-82**
Organization	NASA-Office of Space Flight (United States)
Mission type	Astronomy,Human Crew
Launch date	February 11, 1997
Launch vehicle	Space Shuttle
Launch site	Cape Canaveral, United States
COSPAR ID	1997-004A
Inclination	28.45 degrees
Experiments	Here
Alternate Names	OV 103,24719
Additional Information	Here
PDMP Information	Here
Telecommunications Information	Here
Data Collection	Here
Payload Mass Up	7590.86 kg
Payload Mass Down	7467.73 kg
Orbiter	Discovery
Lift Off Mass	2,052,054.55 kg
Orbiter Weight at Liftoff	114,259.55 kg
Orbiter Weight at Landing	97,279.09 kg
Landed	Concrete runway 15 at Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
Orbits of Earth	150
Orbital Altitude	320 nautical miles (369 statute miles)

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[edit] Crew

Commander: Kenneth D. Bowersox
Pilot: Scott J. "Doc" Horowitz
- Payload Commander:
- Mission Specialist 1: Mark C. Lee
- Mission Specialist 2: Gregory J. Harbaugh
- Mission Specialist 3: Steven L. Smith
- Mission Specialist 4: Joseph R. Tanner
- Mission Specialist 5: Steven A. Hawley
- Payload Specialist 1:
- Payload Specialist 2:

ISS/Mir Crew Transport

[edit] Mission

STS 82 was the 22nd flight of the Discovery orbiter, the 82nd shuttle mission, and the 16th night launch of the shuttle. Its objective was to repair, replace, and/or update the instruments on the Hubble Space Telescope. During several days of EVA, the crew replaced a failed Fine Guidance Sensor (FGS), swapped one of the reel-to-reel tape recorders with a solid-state recorder, and exchanged two of the original instruments, the Goddard High-Resolution Spectrograph (GHRS) and the Faint Object Spectrograph (FOS), with two new instruments, the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) and the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS). In addition to this planned work, astronauts discovered that some of the insulation around the light shield portion of the telescope had degraded and attached several thermal insulation blankets to correct the problem. The duration of the mission was 9 days, 23 hours, 38 minutes, and 9 seconds and lasted for 149 orbits.

[edit] EVA

Extravehicular Activity (EVA) conducted by Mark Lee, Steven Smith, Gregory Harbaugh, and Joseph Tanner during five spacewalks for a total of 33 hours, 11 minutes. EVA 1, Lee and Smith, 6 hours, 42 minutes; Lee and Smith removed and replaced the Goddard high-resolution spectrograph and the faint-object spectrograph with the new space telescope imaging spectrograph and the near-infrared camera and multi-object spectrometer, respectively. EVA 2, Harbaugh and Tanner, 7 hours, 27 minutes; Harbaugh and Tanner replaced a degraded fine guidance sensor and a failed engineering and science tape recorder with new spares. They also installed a new unit known as the optical control electronics enhancement kit. EVA 3, Lee and Smith, 7 hours, 11 minutes; Lee and Smith removed and replaced a data interface unit and replaced an old reel-to-reel engineering and science tape recorder with a new digital solid-state recorder. They also changed out one of Hubble's four reaction wheel assembly units. EVA 4, Harbaugh and Tanner, 6 hours, 34 minutes; Harbaugh and Tanner replaced a solar array drive electronics package and covers over Hubble's magnetometers. They then placed thermal blankets of multilayer material over two areas of degraded insulation around the light shield portion of the telescope just below the top of the astronomical observatory. EVA 5, Lee and Smith, 5 hours, 17 minutes; Lee and Smith attached several thermal insulation blankets to three equipment compartments at the top of the support systems module section of Hubble. The compartments contain key data processing, electronics and scientific instrument telemetry packages. Over the course of the mission, Hubble was also reboosted into an orbit approximately 8 nautical miles higher.

[edit] Payload

Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission 02 (second axial carrier, orbital replacement unit carrier, flight support system); Midcourse Space Experiment

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