STS-82
STS-82 was Space Shuttle Discovery's second Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission. Launched from Launch Complex 39A on February 11, 1997, the crew rendezvoused with Hubble, secured it in Discovery's payload bay, and completed a major maintenance and upgrade campaign. Five spacewalks installed new scientific instruments, replaced key support hardware, added insulation repairs, and prepared the telescope for continued operations. Discovery redeployed Hubble in a higher orbit and landed at Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility on February 21.
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- Aliases
- Discovery STS-82Hubble Servicing Mission 2HST Servicing Mission 2Servicing Mission 2Second HST ServicingSTS 82
- Name
- STS-82
- Status
- completed
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- Description
- STS-82 was Space Shuttle Discovery's second Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission. Launched from Launch Complex 39A on February 11, 1997, the crew rendezvoused with Hubble, secured it in Discovery's payload bay, and completed a major maintenance and upgrade campaign. Five spacewalks installed new scientific instruments, replaced key support hardware, added insulation repairs, and prepared the telescope for continued operations. Discovery redeployed Hubble in a higher orbit and landed at Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility on February 21.
- End Date
- 1997-02-21
- Landing Facility
- Launch Site
- Outcome
- Successfully completed Hubble Servicing Mission 2 with five EVAs totaling 33 hours 11 minutes, installed STIS and NICMOS plus replacement support hardware, repaired degraded insulation, reboosted Hubble, and redeployed it with all new equipment performing nominally.
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- Start Date
- 1997-02-11
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Links
- Official Url
- https://www.nasa.gov/mission/sts-82/
- Wikipedia Url
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-82
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- July 3, 2026 at 20:18:02 UTC
- Updated Time
- July 29, 2026 at 08:53:26 UTC
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