More about Hubble

The announcement was made today that the
remaining Hubble Space Telescope servicing
missions have been cancelled.

This means the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph
(COS) and the WFC3 (Wide Field Camera 3),
which have already been completed, will
not be installed.

NASA had been debating whether or not it
was worth the risk to fly the shuttle
again on non-ISS missions, but during
Thursday's management reorganization
following Bush's speech, the axe fell,
mostly to free up the Shuttle to finish
the ISS "core-complete" configuration
as quickly as possible once flights
are resumed. The shuttle does not carry
anywhere close to enough fuel to change
orbital planes from HST to ISS.

The HST currently has 4 of 6 gyros operating,
if 2 more fail then it has to be safed (shut down),
although work is being done on new software
which will allow limited operation with
only 2 gyros functioning.
Also, the orbit will slowly decay without the
periodic boost it gets from the Shuttle.

Now, if the construction of the JWST, Hubble's
replacement, is cancelled, then I'll be really
****ed.

This angry post is typical of the Dean crowd, of course Dean has
"short man's complex", is that your problem too? On second thought,
don't answer, just do us all a favor and drop dead.

Dear Mr. (or Mrs or Ms. or whatever) J.C. Jones,

You've jumped to quite a conclusion here. I agree with the original post
and I am most definitely NOT a Dean supporter.

Dave Jessie

This angry post is typical of the Dean crowd, of course Dean has
"short man's complex", is that your problem too? On second thought,
don't answer, just do us all a favor and drop dead.

Dear Mr. (or Mrs or Ms. or whatever) J.C. Jones,

You've jumped to quite a conclusion here. I agree with the original post
and I am most definitely NOT a Dean supporter.

Dave Jessie

This angry post is typical of the Dean crowd, of course Dean has
"short man's complex", is that your problem too? On second thought,
don't answer, just do us all a favor and drop dead.

Dear Mr. (or Mrs or Ms. or whatever) J.C. Jones,

You've jumped to quite a conclusion here. I agree with the original post
and I am most definitely NOT a Dean supporter.

Dave Jessie

This angry post is typical of the Dean crowd, of course Dean has
"short man's complex", is that your problem too? On second thought,
don't answer, just do us all a favor and drop dead.

Dear Mr. (or Mrs or Ms. or whatever) J.C. Jones,

You've jumped to quite a conclusion here. I agree with the original post
and I am most definitely NOT a Dean supporter.

Dave Jessie