Hubble glitch renews talk about private servicing mission - SpaceNews
Hubble glitch renews talk about private servicing mission - SpaceNews
A problem with the Hubble Space Telescope has renewed discussion about whether and how NASA might approve a private mission to service it.
I cannot express just how much I want this to happen.
No attempt = hubble will fail and reenter
Attempt(failure) = same
Attempt(success) = hubble continues groundbreaking science and, after some time, can be brought back to earth via Starship to become a museum piece that inspires generations!!
I love Hubble, but the only reason it made sense was because of the Shuttle. Starship ain't no Shuttle.
I'd love for it to come back home, but dollar for dollar there are better things to be spending the money on, Hubbles just going to have more and more problems and we literally don't have the right tools for the job.
Agree although I doubt it is ever coming back to the ground in one piece. Unless SpaceX just wants a PR piece. That being said, not even sure they are designed to land with a payload of that level.
I mean, Elon did put his Tesla into orbit out to Mars. A PR boost to save one of the most beloved science projects sounds like a winner after the crap he's been pulling with x.com fka twitter.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters More Letters CST (Boeing) Crew Space Transportation capsules ~ Central Standard Time (UTC-6) STS Space Transportation System (Shuttle) Jargon Definition Starliner Boeing commercial crew capsule CST-100
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