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In the discussion between you and OF1939, I am definitely in favor of augmenting the Hubble.
The mirrors are the heart of the system, and they are good for decades or centuries, if a stray asteroid doesn't happen by.
OF1939's suggestion is (in my opinion at least) far less likely to receive support in this day and age.
We'll be lucky to see the Webb finally achieve orbit.
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A Computer Glitch Stopped Hubble's Operations. So Far, Restart Efforts Have Failed
https://www.iflscience.com/space/a-comp … ve-failed/
Is this the END for Hubble? Experts say 31-year-old space telescope is 'beyond repair' despite NASA insisting there are 'multiple options'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech … s-fix.html
NASA taking “careful and deliberate” approach to repairing Hubble computer
https://spacenews.com/nasa-taking-caref … -computer/
The MarCOs—nicknamed EVE and WALL-E, after characters from a Pixar film—served as communications relays during InSight's landing, beaming back data at each stage of its descent to the Martian surface in near-real time, along with InSight's first image. WALL-E sent back stunning images of Mars as well, while EVE performed some simple radio science.
All of this was achieved with experimental technology that cost a fraction of what most space missions do: $18.5 million provided by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, which built the CubeSats.
2 Big NASA Space Missions Ended This Week, But Don't Panic after NASA announced the end of two long-running missions: the exoplanet-hunting Kepler space telescope and the Dawn mission that visited the asteroid belt.
Kepler telescope, identified more than 2,600 alien planets
Dawn spacecraft, visited the asteroid Vesta and the dwarf planet Ceres
The fate of the Opportunity rover remains unknown as NASA continues to try to revive it through January
This group may be next:
As for the last contenders for fallen spacecraft this fall, both the Hubble Space Telescope and the Chandra X-Ray Observatory issues were never expected to be fatal injuries. In both cases, engineers knew the scientific instruments were unharmed, and that the troubles were likely caused by the telescopes' gyroscopes, which control how the instruments orient themselves in space.
The next group will be possibly a decade from now or less as they are just starting out.
The Parker Solar Probe mission to "touch the sun" launched in August and is making its first close approach to our star this week.
NASA's new Mars lander, called InSight, will touch down just after Thanksgiving, ready to study the Red Planet's interior, and the New Horizons spacecraft will ring in the new year by swinging past a distant Kuiper Belt object.
What fun these explorers will do for the science that they will explore and discover....
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