NASA is reaching out to the commercial space industry for ideas to keep the Hubble Space Telescope in orbit as its altitude steadily declines.
NASA is reaching out to the commercial space industry for ideas to keep the Hubble Space Telescope in orbit as its altitude steadily declines.
Asking private companies for ideas to keep Hubble up there, after decades of budget cuts and “we’ll deal with it later”? Cute. The main claim is that NASA is “reaching out for ideas.” Ideas are free. What I want to see is the money line: how much, who pays, what happens when the next fiscal year comes around and the plan quietly dies.