Episode 1: Driving The Telescope (Hubble – Eye in the Sky miniseries)

Episode 1: Driving the Telescope – Visit Hubble’s control center to learn about the challenges and techniques of performing extraordinarily detailed observations with an orbiting space telescope. Tour the rarely seen, life-size simulator at NASA that helps engineers and operators investigate problems and test new solutions before implementing them on the real telescope in space.

This series, Hubble – Eye in the Sky, takes you behind the scenes into the world of Hubble Space Telescope operations. Discover the strategies needed to run a bus-sized observatory as it speeds around Earth at 17,000 miles per hour, and find out how Hubble collects the incredible images and groundbreaking data that have transformed humanity’s vision of space. Witness the ingenuity that keeps such a complex and remote machine working to investigate the mysteries of the universe for more than 30 years.

For more information about this miniseries, visit: https://www.nasa.gov/content/mission-operations-hubble-eye-in-the-sky.

Video credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center

Director, Producer & Editor:
James Leigh

Director of Photography:
James Ball

Additional Photography, Coloring & Mix:
Matthew Duncan

Sound Recordist:
Alex Jennings

Production & Edit Assistant:
Lucy Lund

Production & Post:
Origin

GSFC Support:
Lynn Bassford
Maureen Disharoon
James Jeletic
Jeannine Kashif
Erin Kisliuk
Paul Morris

Hubble Space Telescope Visualizations:
M. Kornmesser, L. L. Christensen, L. Calçada, N. Bartmann (ESA/Hubble),
A. Fujii, Robert Gendler, Digitized Sky Survey 2, Panther Observatory
Steve Cannistra, Michael Pierce, Robert Berrington (Indiana University),
Nigel Sharp, Mark Hanna (NOAO/WIYN/NSF)

Additional Visualizations:
M. Kornmesser (ESA/Hubble) — Shuttle Concept
M. Kornmesser (ESA/Hubble) — SAA

Videos & Images:
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
European Space Agency
Space Telescope Science Institute

Music:
The Machines — Richard Canavan
Interesting Conundrum — K1Woods
Watching The Stars — Rimsky Music
Better Times Coming — Zeonium
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This video is public domain and along with other supporting visualizations can be downloaded from the Scientific Visualization Studio at: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13626

See more Hubble videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiuUQ9asub3Ta8mqP5LNiOhOygRzue8kN

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