Talk:STS-82

First Major Revision

I started working on revising this article after noticing that the article on STS-79 makes a reference to STS-82 that I have yet to verify. This article requires the following revisions:

• Determining how the instruments it installed on Hubble have performed.
• Changing the tense on verbs in several places to better reflect the passage of time since the mission. (Most of the copy in this article was lifted from two NASA websites about the mission, now dated.)
• Merging information among sections to eliminate the redundancy caused by sourcing copy from two similar web pages.
• Adding in-line citations.
• Miscellaneous copy editing (e.g. "Discovery" to "Discovery")

I've begun work on these changes but have yet to get the article to the point where I'm satisfied its tags can be removed. I'll continue working on it over the next few days. -- Darmokandjalad (talk) 03:31, 26 December 2011 (UTC)

More Parameters

• Some say STS-82 was the furthest a space shuttle has ever been away from the earth's surface . The article should say something to that effect, if someone's got reliable sources for it...
• The article mentions Hubble being boosted to a higher orbit. Could it be, that they also changed the inclination at that time? I can remember seeing HST several times in the night sky over Germany, but in recent years you had to travel a lot further south to be able to catch a glimpse of it. I don't know exactly when that changed, but if it had something to do with STS-82 it might be worth adding to the article.
  

--BjKa (talk) 18:54, 15 January 2015 (UTC)

Changing the orbital inclination is extremely expensive (fuel wise) and I see no benefit in that. The reboosts were of the order of only 10km altitude, probably corresponding to only a few m/s (would have to calculate that). Spending a similar Delta V on inclination changes wouldn't be noticeable at all.2.246.76.77 (talk) 00:19, 16 August 2016 (UTC)