Wednesday, August 6, 2008

COS ships to Cape Kennedy!


After many years and one cancellation (after space shuttle Columbia was destroyed), the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph has finally shipped to the Kennedy Space Center in preparation for launch to and installation in the Hubble Space Telescope during Servicing Mission Four.

Kennedy has live video feeds of their facility. COS is in the SSPF highbay, channel 7. The attached image is a still from the video feed taken the day COS arrived at KSC. COS is on the dolly in the foreground, surrounded by people.