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Hubble glitch renews talk about private servicing mission - SpaceNews (spacenews.com)
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I cannot express just how much I want this to happen.

No attempt = hubble will fail and reenter

Attempt(failure) = same

Attempt(success) = hubble continues groundbreaking science and, after some time, can be brought back to earth via Starship to become a museum piece that inspires generations!!

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[–] echo64 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I love Hubble, but the only reason it made sense was because of the Shuttle. Starship ain't no Shuttle.

I'd love for it to come back home, but dollar for dollar there are better things to be spending the money on, Hubbles just going to have more and more problems and we literally don't have the right tools for the job.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Jared Isaacman really wants to fund a Dragon trip to it to attach a reboost/attitude control module. I'm pretty down to let him go for it.

[–] echo64 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know this is the spacex community, but it's worth avoiding the delusion that spacex often sells. Spacex just does not have the tools that Shuttle provided.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The concept I saw involved putting the reboost module in Dragon's trunk, docking with that, and EVAing over to plug in a handful of connections. That seems doable.