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Chip
09-March-2002, 04:48 PM
This comes from CNN: http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/space/03/09/shuttle/index.html

Interesting little article. Maybe we'll get a chance to see new images released in May!
The last paragraph states the planned ultimate fate of the Hubble Space Telescope.
James
09-March-2002, 07:56 PM
NASA's expecting 20 years out of the Hubble. Just goes to show that working in outer space is beneficial to your health. /phpBB/images/smiles/icon_wink.gif
Lisa
09-March-2002, 08:09 PM
Okay, they want to keep the Hubble around until 2010. Any idea what will replace the Hubble?
Lisa
Donnie B.
09-March-2002, 09:56 PM
It's called the Next Generation Space Telescope (shades of Star Trek?)

Learn more here:
http://www.stsci.edu/ngst/

Should be an awesome tool.
ToSeek
11-March-2002, 02:01 PM
Also here:

NGST Home Page (http://ngst.gsfc.nasa.gov/)
Hale_Bopp
11-March-2002, 02:46 PM
Build your own Next Generation Space Telescope here...

http://ngst.gsfc.nasa.gov/SimNGST/

Rob
ToSeek
11-March-2002, 04:30 PM
http://www.space.com/images/sts109_deploy_020309d_02.jpg

Doesn't look right with those stubby little solar panels! /phpBB/images/smiles/icon_wink.gif
The Bad Astronomer
11-March-2002, 04:55 PM
By coincidence, I happened to be at the warehouse at Goddard Space Flight Center when the solar panels were being shipped to Kennedy. A friend's daughter was in town, and I was showing her the campus (she's an astronomy major in college). We walked into the warehouse and some people were using a crane to hoist a box, clearly to place it into the shipping container (basically a big white tank that fits into a truck). I asked what was in the box, and they told me it contained the new panels. Way cool.

The last time I saw them, they were in the clean room, stacked on a rack after some testing had been done. I knew they were smaller than the original panels, but they were still pretty big. Don't forget, Hubble is as big as a school bus!
David Hall
12-March-2002, 11:14 AM
I am so glad to see the Hubble off on it's own again. I just kept having this irrational fear that something would go wrong this time and render it completely lifeless. I'm relieved that my intuition was wrong.

Go Hubble!
ToSeek
12-March-2002, 01:47 PM
One of my first assignments as a programmer was in support of Hubble (though I don't think it was Hubble yet), back in the mid-80s. Another young programmer and I looked at the plans for all the servicing missions and said, "Gosh! We could still be working on HST when we're 40!" We thought that was really funny at the time.

It's not funny any more.

To (age 43) Seek