KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the
Vertical Processing Facility, workers watch while the Advanced Camera
for Surveys (ACS) is lowered into the Axial Science Instrument
Protective Enclosure (ASIPE). The ACS is part of the payload on the
Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission, STS-109. The goal of the
mission is to service the HST, replacing Solar Array 2 with Solar
Array 3, replacing the Power Control Unit, removing the Faint Object
Camera and installing the ACS, installing the Near Infrared Camera and
Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) Cooling System, and installing New
Outer Blanket Layer insulation. Mission STS-109 is scheduled for
launch no earlier than Feb. 21, 2002.
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