STS 125 shows capability to service large in-space objects
On http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/index.html and on the NASA televised network, there is an ongoing coverage of the upgrade and repair to the Hubble Telescope.
There is very close work by the mission specialist and the robotic arm operator.
Coverage is more than acceptable, with spectacular in depth field of views of the space shuttle as an orbiting nestle captive platform of the now captured Hubble Telescope.
These current pictures supplied to the public media via constant satellite to ground link feed, would have more than amazed the early pioneers of space flight.
*Notes so you understand what’s going on.
The fasteerning of each nut and bolt to replace such hardware and insert able cameras, being so many turns in portable battery tool supplied rotations, is for both insurance and business means.
This is so, as the people who have supplied the Hubble to work at it station in space, are in some part companies themselves.
So therefore, every bolt and how many turns that bolt is fastened, translates directly to company investments of money.
Since this company and governmental agengenies are very closely in a business capacity, every turn and method of how any fixture and or movement placed upon this to be repaired item balances out as a money responsible item, all actions must be accounted for.
This way if there is a failure of some key critical component as a service issue later on the Hubble, that mission specialist has coverage, or an alibi for their actions in servicing that item.
Repair actions are also somewhat similar within the military services, with sometimes an inspector having to open and reinspect every single aspect of a series items, for it seems, not reason at all.
*The second aspect in servicing so that this process is so redundant flawless, is for an acceptable safety margins.
It is good to take a little time, sit down and observe how a well coordinated crew in the realm of near space, takes on their s assigned task of accepting an asked task.