Hubble at 35: Will NASA’s Iconic Space Telescope Survive the Budget Crunch?
Hubble at 35: Will NASA’s Iconic Space Telescope Survive the Budget Crunch?
Hubble at 35: Will NASA’s Iconic Space Telescope Survive the Budget Crunch?
Hubble at 35: Will NASA’s Iconic Space Telescope Survive the Budget Crunch?
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This might be an interesting thing to keep an eye on. Isaacman already offered NASA a self-funded flight to service and boost Hubble, and NASA turned him down. Now that Isaacman is likely to be the next administrator I wonder if he will prioritize a Hubble service mission, even if he’s not the one flying it.
Hubble is living on borrowed time as it is. It only has 2 working reaction wheels remaining (out of 6) and has been operating on a 1-reaction-wheel mode for a while now (which takes longer to make a pointing maneuver than with multiple reaction wheels) to conserve the other one.
Once the remaining reaction wheels wear out, Hubble won’t be usable anymore. What a great run though.
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Perhaps gift it to the EU space agency if they don’t want to maintain it.