STS-109
STS-109 was Space Shuttle Columbia's Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission 3B. The crew retrieved and redeployed Hubble with the Shuttle robotic arm, installed new solar arrays, a new Power Control Unit, the Advanced Camera for Surveys, a reaction wheel assembly, and cooling hardware for NICMOS, and completed five consecutive days of spacewalks by Grunsfeld, Linnehan, Newman, and Massimino.
Identity
- Aliases
- STS 109Hubble Servicing Mission 3BHST Servicing Mission 3BColumbia flight 27
- Name
- STS-109
- Slug
- sts-109
- Status
- completed
Details
- Description
- STS-109 was Space Shuttle Columbia's Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission 3B. The crew retrieved and redeployed Hubble with the Shuttle robotic arm, installed new solar arrays, a new Power Control Unit, the Advanced Camera for Surveys, a reaction wheel assembly, and cooling hardware for NICMOS, and completed five consecutive days of spacewalks by Grunsfeld, Linnehan, Newman, and Massimino.
- End Date
- 2002-03-12
- Landing Site Id
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- Launch Site Id
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- Outcome
- Successfully upgraded and serviced the Hubble Space Telescope with new power, imaging, solar-array, reaction-wheel, and cooling hardware during five EVAs.
- Program
- Space Shuttle
- Start Date
- 2002-03-01
- Vehicle Family Ids
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- Vehicle Id
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Links
- Official Url
- https://www.nasa.gov/mission/sts-109/
- Wikipedia Url
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-109
Assets & Meta
- Creation Time
- 4/26/2026, 4:15:25 PM
- Image
- Download
- Updated Time
- 6/30/2026, 8:35:26 PM
Other
- Affiliations
- Organization Id
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- Role
- Operator
- Crew
- Astronaut Id
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- Role
- Commander
- Astronaut Id
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- Role
- Pilot
- Astronaut Id
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- Role
- Payload Commander / Mission Specialist 1 / EVA 1
- Astronaut Id
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- Role
- Mission Specialist 2 / RMS operator
- Astronaut Id
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- Role
- Mission Specialist 3 / EVA 2
- Astronaut Id
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- Role
- Mission Specialist 4 / EVA 3
- Astronaut Id
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- Role
- Mission Specialist 5 / EVA 4