Hubble Space Telescope- To be repaired!
Started by AstroJack, 10/31/2006 04:30PM
Posted 10/31/2006 04:30PM
Opening Post
Posted 10/31/2006 08:37PM
| Edited 10/31/2006 08:46PM
#1
I suspect the price to service it is more than it would be to put a new one up there....Indeed, I was told that by one of the Mars Rover chief engineers, and I believe her.
If I'm not mistaken, the Spitzer Infared Telescope cost $720 million total. This service mission will top 900million. And that's an estimate so far. Adjusted for inflation, another Spitzer would cost 873 million so I suspect another new Hubble would be similar in cost.
Also, although I am sentimentally attached to the Hubble like anyone else, I also suspect it is becoming outdated by adaptive optics/optical telescope interferometry down on Terra Firma.
I don't mean to offend anyone, but it seems NASA has bent over in the wrong direction toward politics and left objective science analysis in the dust bin. I wonder if we will be getting the best scientific bang for the buck here.
Gerald
If I'm not mistaken, the Spitzer Infared Telescope cost $720 million total. This service mission will top 900million. And that's an estimate so far. Adjusted for inflation, another Spitzer would cost 873 million so I suspect another new Hubble would be similar in cost.
Also, although I am sentimentally attached to the Hubble like anyone else, I also suspect it is becoming outdated by adaptive optics/optical telescope interferometry down on Terra Firma.
I don't mean to offend anyone, but it seems NASA has bent over in the wrong direction toward politics and left objective science analysis in the dust bin. I wonder if we will be getting the best scientific bang for the buck here.
Gerald
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