Hubble Getting an Upgrade

Posted by timothy on Monday February 18, 2002 @04:51PM from the all-new-appliances dept.

instinctdesign writes: "The New York Times (free registration of course) is running a story on the planned upgrades to the one of NASA's greatest successes, the Hubble Space Telescope. Here is a quote from the article about the plans: 'Tasks include adding a new primary camera, replacing the telescope's electricity-generating solar arrays, replacing the main power switching controller, replacing a critical pointing device and installing an experimental cooling system in hopes of reviving a dormant instrument.'"

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Upgrade, but in the wrong direction by Noodlenose · 2002-02-18 20:51 · Score: 0, Offtopic

As much as I find the discoveries of Hubble and expensive toys in Space amazing, I would rather have the Bush administration put an equal amount of funds into their alternative - energy program, so in 200 years we still have a earth we can make discoveries from.
Dirk