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| ACM | ||||| Thursday, February 07, 2002 - 04:43 pm
How long will Hubble be remaining in orbit? I know it was only scheduled to last until 2003(I think) You guys are putting new equipment on it so how long do you plan on keeping it in orbit? |
| webmaster | ||||| Thursday, February 07, 2002 - 05:26 pm
As of now there are two more servicing missions planned. This one, and SM4 in 2004. The current time table is to keep Hubble running until 2010. Hopefully they'll decommission it by bringing it back safe and sound back to earth via shuttle. |
| lostmessage | ||||| Monday, February 11, 2002 - 01:12 pm
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Are they going to replace Hubble once it's brought down? |
| webmaster | ||||| Monday, February 11, 2002 - 01:17 pm
The replacement for Hubble will be the NGST - Next Generation Space Telescope.
NGST is larger and will actually orbit on the otherside of the Sun from the Earth. It may not produce quite the same type of images Hubble has, but it will generate great science nevertheless.
Scheduled for launch in 2009, the telescope will carry cameras and spectrographs sensitive to infrared radiation. Over the telescope's 5-10 year lifetime astronomers hope to observe the farthest reaches of the universe. |
| fiona.diviney | ||||| Friday, March 01, 2002 - 06:39 am
How long does it take to travel into space? |
| astrokim | ||||| Friday, March 01, 2002 - 11:50 am
I thought that the NGST was going to be in L2 orbit on the farside of the moon rather than the sun. |
| Dave | ||||| Friday, March 01, 2002 - 09:28 pm
Yes, NGST will be at L2. But L2 is neither the far side of the Sun nor the far side of the Moon -- it is on the opposite side of the Earth from the Sun. |
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