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Originally Posted by AKONI
Wait a second... Wasn't NASA ALREADY planning to decommision the Hubble because of the new telescope being sent out? Isn't this old news?
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No. A servicing mission from the shuttle was in the works, designed to keep Hubble working at least through 2010 and probably longer. Now that mission has been canceled, and with the state of the Hubble's gyros, it's anyone's guess as to how much longer it will last. Odds are very much against its being able to continue to do science until its successor goes up.