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Post by Filter on Feb 10, 2005 12:26:06 GMT -5
Thoughts?
The Hubble is in need of some replacement parts and an orbital boost. It is on the block in the current budget; slated for deep sea deployment in two years.
Fix, replace, call it an era gone by?
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Post by solidsquid on Feb 10, 2005 15:34:46 GMT -5
I think it would be a shame to scrap an instrument that has gone beyond what was expected of it.
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Post by Filter on Feb 11, 2005 19:59:19 GMT -5
I have to be honest, I'm dissappointed we don't have at least three of them up there.
In regards to astronomy, losing it is quite literally like returning to the pre-atomic age.
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Post by necroshine on Feb 28, 2005 20:46:08 GMT -5
I always felt it should stay up till they have a replacement for it. too bad that isn’t going to happen.
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Post by Mistwalker on Mar 1, 2005 1:02:59 GMT -5
There are some great ground based telescopes now, that can do all sorts of nifty things, like change lense shape to deal with the effects of being inside an atmosphere, but none of them can quite do what hubble does. It's an amazing telescope, and it's done an amazing job, and if we repaired it, it would continue to do an amazing job, taking pictures no other telescope in existence can take. I hope this gets changed, and we get up there and fix it.
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