NASA Mulls Reviving Hubble Telescope
Posted on: Monday, 10 May 2004, 06:00 CDT
NASA has decided to give one more look at reviving the aging Hubble Space Telescope using a robotic mission, the Washington Post reported Monday.
Last Jan. 16, the telescope seemed doomed because of worn-out batteries and gyros, and NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe on Jan. 16 canceled Hubble's fourth servicing mission. At the time, he said the shuttle could not fly to Hubble and still comply with new safety measures recommended after last year's Columbia disaster.
But on Feb. 20, Edward Weiler, NASA associate administrator for space science put out a Request for Information, inviting ideas for a robotic servicing mission. So far, 26 responses have been received.
NASA will have to decide within seven months whether to make the trip, because it needs three years to prepare a mission by the end of 2007, when Hubble's batteries are expected to give out.
If we haven't made a decision (this year), we'll lose the option, Weiler told the newspaper.
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