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Föderation EN Fr 17.05.2024 08:43:59 So now SpaceX, with no working spacesuit, and years behind on it's multi-billion dollar moon lander, is lobbying NASA to go to the Hubble Space Telescope. "A successful private mission could improve Hubble's ability to point at celestial objects and, by boosting its orbit, extend its life by years... however, an accident could leave the multibillion-dollar telescope broken — or, even more tragically, tethered to the dead bodies of the astronauts sent to repair it." https://www.npr.org/2024/05/16/1250250249/spacex-repair-hubble-space-telescope-nasa-foia |
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Föderation EN Fr 17.05.2024 18:55:01 Starlink is killing Hubble Something about this plan to move Hubble, didn't make sense. If the space telescope still has 10 years of useful life, why this risky SpaceX mission to boost it's orbit now? Well it turns out the main thing threatening the utility of Hubble is... wait for it... SpaceX Starlink satellites, which orbit just above Hubble constantly "photo-bombing" the images. Within a few years there will be so many Starlinks that Hubble will be useless. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/02/science/hubble-spacex-starlink.html Medien: 1 |
