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Chandra Losing Its Sight To Grease

Posted by timothy on from the try-a-different-shampoo dept.

lgreco writes "The new scientist has this article about NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory that is losing part of its sight due to grease built up on one of its optical filters. I guess it will take a space shuttle mission to clean the filter or install one of these mini windshield wipers ..."

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  1. No Shuttle mission to fix Chandra by G4from128k · · Score: 5, Informative

    Unfortunately Chandra's orbit is way out of reach of the shuttle -- orbiting between 133,000 km (82,646 mi) and 16,000 kilometers (9,942 mi) from the Earth.

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