Saving Hubble: Boffins Weigh In

[beamjockey]

The NASA administrator is unwilling to launch the previously-scheduled repair mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. But he did ask a blue-ribbon committee to look at it, and also evaluate a possible robotic repair mission.

Assessment of Options for Extending the Life of the Hubble Space Telescope is a brief 10-page letter offering the recommendations of the National Academy of Sciences committee that studied the problem.

A thicker report will be along in the fall.

Comments

[jrittenhouse.livejournal.com]

Boiled down, it says that the Hubble is worth saving, but that there isn't sufficient data on how to do it (ways and means) to make a recommendation on whether a rescue is all that feasible. Reply hazy, ask again later.