NASA sees no quick fix for broken Hubble telescope
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AP - NASA's efforts to get the ailing Hubble Space Telescope working again have hit a snag, and engineers are trying to figure out their next step.
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Hubble Telescope (Hover)
NASA astronauts liftoff to Hubble telescope
(AFP)
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AFP - US astronauts are on a high-risk mission to service the Hubble telescope for the last time, prolonging the life of a tool that has revolutionized our understanding of the universe.
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Hubble breaks cosmic distance record: Sees universe soon after Big Bang
By pushing the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to its limits astronomers have shattered the cosmic distance record by measuring the distance to the most remote galaxy ever seen in the Universe. This galaxy existed just 400 million years after the Big Bang and provides new insights into the first generation of galaxies. Ref. Source 1p.
I am with KNtoran and as having him a doctor in my spaceship I want to be in the same vessel/mission.
Jokes aside, I remember Hubble's launch and endeavours from my youth and how ecstatic I was everytime I heard any news about the Space Telescope. We are still such a small species, bickering between us, instead of stoping wars etc and starting working together to colonise our Solar System. (Oversimplification, but let a man dream for once).
Hubble is an amazing invention that has changed what we can see of the universe. What is amazing to me is the fact that they can use a system to track all that Hubble sees. I can't wrap my head around trying to map billions of planets and stars that are all moving!
NASA Extends Hubble Space Telescope Science Operations Contract
NASA is contractually extending science operations for its Hubble Space Telescope an additional five years. The agency awarded a sole source contract extension Thursday to the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy for continued Hubble science operations support at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore. Ref. Source 1b.