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Old October 8th 18, 10:40 PM posted to sci.astro.amateur
Chris L Peterson
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Default Hubble Telescope partially-crippled

On Mon, 8 Oct 2018 13:56:04 -0700 (PDT), RichA
wrote:

IF they still had a Shuttle, they could probably fix it.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-45788412


Typical HST service missions cost more than the HST itself. It's
cheaper to replace the HST than to fix it, at least with shuttle
technology.