HST SM4 Super Lightweight Instrument Carrier (SLIC)
An animation of a rotating Super Lightweight Instrument Carrier (SLIC) as prepped for the Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission 4. This carrier will be placed in space shuttle Atlantis's cargo bay aft of the airlock and forward of the ORUC. This carrier made of composite material supports the enclosure holding the Wide Field Camera 3 among other things. SLIC's lightweight enables the space shuttle to carry more instruments and equipment.
Rotating Super Lightweight Instrument Carrier (Frame sequence contains alpha channel)
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
ATK/NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
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Animator
- Pete Alea (ATK)
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Producer
- Michael McClare (HTSI)
Release date
This page was originally published on Tuesday, May 20, 2008.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:55 PM EDT.
Series
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[HST: WFPC2]
ID: 655Wide-Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) was installed in Dec 1993 and used to obtain high resolution images of astronomical objects. This camera was removed in the last servicing mission so it is no longer in service.
This dataset can be found at: http://www.stsci.edu/hst/wfpc2/wfpc2_diag.html
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