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.
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- Aliases
- Columbia STS-109Hubble Servicing Mission 3BHST Servicing Mission 3BSM3BAdvanced Camera for Surveys InstallationSTS 109
- Name
- STS-109
- Status
- completed
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- 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.
- Destination
- Hubble Space Telescope in low Earth orbit for Servicing Mission 3B, five spacewalks to install the Advanced Camera for Surveys, new solar arrays and power-control unit, and restore NICMOS cooling
- End Date
- 2002-03-12
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- Outcome
- Successfully completed Hubble Servicing Mission 3B, installing third-generation solar arrays, a new Power Control Unit, Advanced Camera for Surveys, reaction-wheel and NICMOS cooling hardware during five EVAs totaling a then-record 35 hours 55 minutes.
- Programs
- Start Date
- 2002-03-01
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Links
- Official Url
- https://www.nasa.gov/mission/sts-109/
- Wikipedia Url
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-109
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- Creation Time
- April 26, 2026 at 16:15:25 UTC
- Updated Time
- August 23, 2026 at 09:43:59 UTC
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