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- Path: sparky!uunet!world!ksr!jfw
- From: jfw@ksr.com (John F. Woods)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Re: Shuttle replacement
- Message-ID: <19159@ksr.com>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 10:09:00 EST
- References: <q!z1l0f@rpi.edu> <1992Nov20.142445.20795@iti.org> <69996@cup.portal.com> <1992Nov22.191524.6478@iti.org>
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- aws@iti.org (Allen W. Sherzer) writes:
- >In article <69996@cup.portal.com> BrianT@cup.portal.com (Brian Stuart Thorn) writes:
- >>Whether or not it is efficient to do so is another question. I posted
- >>another question about why Hubble Space Telescope is not brought back
- >>home for repairs. There are many reasons in this case, mostly concerning
- >>cost and loss of productivity (however limited it would be).
- >Brinning Hubble back and flying it again would cost well over a billion
- >$$. For less, we could build a new one and launch on a Titan.
-
- And, of course, since Hubble wasn't designed to withstand the rigors of
- being brought back (though that was the original intention), doing so could
- result in *needing* to build a new one -- after having spent a billion dollars
- :-). [The ride down is not all that smooth, and Hubble is a big, delicate
- piece of optics.]
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