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- From: baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov (Ron Baalke)
- Newsgroups: sci.astro
- Subject: Re: HST sites
- Date: 26 Jan 1993 01:31 UT
- Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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- References: <1jvcesINNki1@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> <1993Jan25.084257.1@stsci.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan25.084257.1@stsci.edu>, zellner@stsci.edu writes...
- >In article <1jvcesINNki1@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu>, ko_mike@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu
- >(Michael Y Ko) writes:
- >
- > > I know there are three main sites that receive and control information from
- > > the Hubble Space Telescope. I think they're JPL, Goddard, and Space
- > > Telescope Institute in Baltimore.
- > >
- >Goddard ships both the science and engineering telemetry to STScI in Baltimore.
- >We also look at the engineering telemetry, but more specifically at the actual
- >science observations in progress to verify that the science instruments did
- >they were supposed to do. We get all the science data, take a quick look at
- >most of it to verify its integrity, package it up for the Investigators, and
- >archive it. Our real-time commanding is presently limited to making small
- >pointing corrections and occasinally setting an event flag. We will have more
- >real-time responsibilities for aligning the COSTAR mirrors.
- >
- >I do not know of any real-time link to JPL. Perhaps you are thinking of
- >Marshall Flight Center, which had some responsibilites in the early stages
- >following launch.
-
- The Deep Space Network (which is run by JPL) is a backup to Hubble should
- anything happen to TDRS. We have not had to backup Hubble since it has
- been launched, but the link it there.
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