Don't ask NASA if HST is better now than its pre-deploy specs, ask the
astronomers who've been able to write many wonderful papers based on
their observations using the first generation instruments with COSTAR.

David A. Scott wrote:
Leaf Fan wrote in
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Actually, if you'd like to look at the pre-launch specs and compare them
to what COSTAR and the second generation instruments' corrective optics
have provided, you'll find that HST is even better now than had the
mirror been ground correctly the first time.




This still makes be wonder how good would the so called second
generation instruments be if the damn mirror was cut corectly the
first time. I tend not to belive all the NASA hype since its in there
interest to make things look better than they are. Its the nature
of bad management which NASA seems to have no shortage of.



David A. Scott