Hubble Mission Operations

Go behind the scenes and into the mission operations of the Hubble Space Telescope at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

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Systems Manager Morgan Van Arsdall oversees a test on a critical adjustment in the way the Hubble Space Telescope points...
A woman studies the data on a monitor in a low lit Hubble operations room.
A model of the Hubble Space Telescope sits on a flight controller’s desk at the Space Telescope Operations Control Center...
A Hubble model on a table at an engineers workstation in the control room.
Nzinga Tull, Hubble systems anomaly response manager at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, works in the control...
Nzinga Tull, Hubble systems anomaly response manager at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, works in the control room July 15 to restore Hubble to full science operations.
System engineer Mojtaba Abedin monitors Hubble Space Telecope's pointing control system, used to turn and steady Hubble, to make sure...
A man sits pensive looking at monitors in a Hubble operations room.
Flight controllers at Goddard Space Flight Center's Space Telescope Operations Control Center monitor progress during the third spacewalk of Hubble's...
Hubble engineers in the control center watch on large screens the astronauts close the spacecraft's lower doors.
A Lego model of the space shuttle and the Hubble Space Telescope rests atop a desk at the Goddard Space...
A LEGO model of the Shuttle, cargo bay carriers, and Hubble on a robotic arm sits next to the montiors in the Hubble control center.
A model of the spacecraft sits in the corner of the Operations Support Room. In this room, located inside the...
A model of the Hubble Space Telescope in the control center
On June 16, 2020, Justin Germany (front) and Larry Stake (back) of the Flight Operations Team command the Hubble Space...
A man in a mask during the pandemic performs Hubble operations in the control center in front of computer monitors.
During a complex switch to the Hubble Space Telescope's backup hardware on July 15, 2021, NASA Operation Manager (NOM) Dave...
A man talks on a cell phone while looking at data on a monitor in an Hubble operations area.
Kevin Hartnett, NASA's Science Operations Manager for the Hubble Space Telescope Project (right), and Pete Pataro, Flight Operations Team Lead,...
Two lead flight operations personnel watch the big screen in the control room.
On July 15, 2021, the Hubble operations team at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center began a complicated switch to backup...
A operations room for Hubble with people looking at monitors.
System engineering manager Dan Smith discusses preparations for returning the Hubble Space Telescope spacecraft control to its main computer. The...
A row of people talking at a console of computers in the Hubble Space Telescope Operations Support Room
During the test of a new pointing mode on June 16, 2020, systems engineer Steve Sands serves as the test...
During the pandemic, only Steve and Morgan (pictured above) occupy the room while the engineers monitor from home.
Larry Stake, a member of the Flight Operations Team, scrutinizes data while helping test a new way of pointing the...
A man scratches his head in thought while holding a land line phone receiver in one hand and analyzing data on a screen in the Hubble control center.
Chief Systems Engineer for Flight Larry Dunham (second from left), has a discussion with the team responsible for ensuring that...
Four people standing discuss the pointing stability of Hubble as another person sits at a console in the Hubble control center.
Chief System Engineer for Flight Larry Dunham points at Hubble Space Telescope data as Systems Manager Morgan Van Arsdall and...
Three people discuss operations in the Hubble control center while looking at spacecraft data.
Chief System Engineer for Flight Larry Dunham (left) and Mojtaba Abedin, pointing control systems engineer (right), look at data returned...
Two engineers talk about the stability of the pointing system while looking at and pointing to data on a monitor.
The Vehicle Electrical System Test facility combines an exact duplicate of the Hubble Space Telescope's electrical system, which was designed...
A man sitting on a stool looks at a rack of equipment in the Hubble simulator area.
The Vehicle Electrical System Test (VEST) facility combines an exact duplicate of the Hubble Space Telescope's electrical system, which was...
Four people study a rack of equipment in the Hubble simulator area.
Systems engineer Joe Stock sits at his workstation in the Operations Support Room of Hubble’s control center and monitors a...
A man is pensive monitoring a Hubble operations test in the control center while looking at data on a monitor.
Hubble engineers James Manns (front), Colleen Townsley (center), and Stan Kroll (back) monitor a test of new procedures for the...
Two people sitting and one standing while monitoring a spacecraft procedure test in the operations area of Hubble.
Hubble Space Telescope engineers are gathered in the Operations Support Room as Systems Manager Morgan Van Arsdall points to a...
Eight people look at the data on a large screen in the Hubble operations area and discuss a test that is being conducted.
Hubble Space Telescope electrical system engineer Stan Kroll monitors a test of new procedures for the spacecraft on April 16,...
A man types on a laptop in the Hubble control center
Flight Operations Manager Lynn Bassford observes from the back as Hubble Space Telescope mission operations team members conduct a test...
A woman looks on as four flight controllers command Hubble in the control center.
Flight operations team members Bijal Patel and Phathom Donald take part in a discussion on commanding the Hubble Space Telescope...
Two flight controllers look over at someone talking in the control room for Hubble.
Communications engineer Steve Sands talks with members of the flight operations team on April 11, 2019, in the Mission Operations...
An engineer discusses Hubble spacecraft communications with flight controllers in the Hubble control room.
Flight operations team members Phathom Donald and Bijal Patel discuss commanding the Hubble Space Telescope in the Mission Operations Room....
A photograph of a man and woman sitting in Hubble's "Space Telescope Operations Control Center" also called the STOCC. They are sitting next to each other, with many computer screens with data and information from the spacecraft.
Doug Grimes, a member of the flight ops team, works at his station on April 11, 2019, in the Hubble...
A Hubble flight controller looks down at written operations procedures while at his console.
Engineers at Goddard's Space Telescope Operations Control Center monitor the Hubble Space Telescope around the clock.
Hubble STOCC at Goddard
Members of the flight operations and systems engineering team watch as the Space Shuttle Atlantis prepares for lift-off for its...
Hubble's Operations Support Room in the control center is fully staffed at consoles while the shuttle on the launch pad is on the big screens.
Members of the engineering team at Goddard Space Flight Center keep a careful eye on events during the launch of...
Two engineers talk in the Hubble control center waiting for the Shuttle to launch
The Space Shuttle Atlantis is visible on large screens in the Space Telescope Operations Control Center as it travels on...
A fully staffed Hubble control center room watches the launch of a shuttle on the large screens.
Hubble team member Kevin Hartnett (right) works from Goddard Space Flight Center's Space Telescope Operations Control Center as the Space...
A flight operations lead checks off procedures in the control center.
An enlarged version of the Servicing Mission 4 mission patch is flanked by screens showing the gloved hands of an...
People in the Hubble control center watch the third spacewalk of SM4 on large screen projectors.
Engineers and controllers watch avidly as astronauts grapple the Hubble Space Telescope and attach it to the Space Shuttle Atlantis...
Hubble engineers in the control center watch the space shuttle grapple Hubble with its robotic arm.
Hubble Servicing Mission 4 (SM4) Ground System Manager, Tony Foster, is photographed overseeing the configuration of, and monitoring the performance...
The ground system manager at his workstation in the control room
Mike Prior and Bill Crabb conduct mission operations on May 17, 2009, during Servicing Mission 4 for the Hubble Space...
A servicing mission manager with a head set on at his workstation in the control room.
Sensor Analysis and Calibration (SAC) Engineer, Ed Kimmer, is seen in the foreground of this shot taken in the Space...
A person with a headphone and microphone on his head watches the mission on a screen in front of him.