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Old October 9th 18, 03:40 AM posted to sci.astro.amateur
RichA[_6_]
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Default Hubble Telescope partially-crippled

On Monday, 8 October 2018 17:40:28 UTC-4, Chris L Peterson wrote:
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.


Replace it with what, the Webb?