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Announced by Exciting Simulations is a new Mission pack for their Space Shuttle Mission 2007 simulator. The mission is called STS-125 mission and is based on real life mission that NASA completed in order to service the Hubble Space Telescope. Users can download the mission pack update.
Exciting Simulations has released today a new Mission Pack for the Space Shuttle Mission 2007 simulator - the STS-125 mission. This is the most recently completed NASA Space Shuttle Mission and the last to visit the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). It is followed today by the on-going STS-127.
Carried out by Atlantis on May 11, 2009, STS-125 was a complex mission which tested the skill and patience of the Shuttle crew.
During STS-125, the Atlantis crew performed major maintenance, repair and upgrade operations on the HST. After rendezvous and HST capture with the RMS, the crew placed the HST on the Space Shuttle payload bay "operation table" and during the following five space walks, the Astronauts replaced damaged modules and batteries, and added modern scientific instruments.
STS-125 was an extremely successful mission as it increased Hubble's usable life to at least 2014, while at the same time, increasing its scientific capabilities beyond to what has been available before STS-125.
As NASA puts it: "With the newly installed Wide Field Camera, Hubble will be able to observe in ultraviolet and infrared spectrums as well as visible light, peer deep onto the cosmic frontier in search of the earliest star systems and study planets in the solar system. The telescope's new Cosmic Origins Spectrograph will allow it to study the grand-scale structure of the universe, including the star-driven chemical evolution that produces carbon and the other elements necessary for life."
In the best SSM2007 tradition, the budding astronauts will experience first-hand the liftoff, On-Orbit ops including rendezvous and capture of the HST, EVA in Zero-G, RMS operations, Deorbit, Reentry and manually Landing the Shuttle at Edwards AFB.
The Space Shuttle Mission 2007™ is available for online purchase in downloadable format at the SSM2007 official web site: www.space-shuttle-mission.com. The latest Demo can also be downloaded freely at the same web site.
Exciting Simulations ™ is an entertainment brand name of Simsquared Ltd. - a leading developer of professional Virtual Reality Simulation applications.
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