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RE: Shuttle extension could again lengthen Hubble life

Last post 09-23-2009 8:35 PM by krispace. 1 replies.
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  • 09-23-2009 8:13 PM

    RE: Shuttle extension could again lengthen Hubble life

    Flightglobal:
    Hubble proponents are mulling potential future servicing options for the recently reinvigorated 19-yr-old space telescope in light of an option offered by......

    Author: John Croft

    Date: 23 September 2009

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  • 09-23-2009 8:35 PM In reply to

    Re: RE: Shuttle extension could again lengthen Hubble life.

    To me this is excellent news. Visiting the Webb Telescope website: lot of rah,rah, puts sliced-bread into the seriously obsolete category, and how MUCH more will be seen from L1etc etc in the self-congratutory twaddle line, but, not a dicky-bird about break-downs and servicing. ORION/ARES1 can't get to L1; full stop. Tough for ATLAS/DELTA too. So NASA would have to use a ARES 5-lite flight. Overkill I'd say. DIRECT 120/130 would have been PERFECT! This last Hubble mission shows it can be kept going and be constantly upgraded indefinitely if gone about the right way. Continuing Hubble makes sense, as does scrapping Webb if we're stuck perpetually in LEO as seems likely.
    All bureaucrats(oh, and politicians!) MUST die!
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