Space Tug to Save the Hubble?

Aglassis writes "In an article at SpaceRef, the CTO of Orbital Recovery Corporation claims that his company will be able to develop a space tug that could save the Hubble Space Telescope (from becoming 'a ballisticly implanted reef in the Pacific') by either moving it into a much higher stable orbit, or by moving it to the ISS where it could be maintained and operated. Some of the reasons that he cites are that the Hubble's replacement, the James Webb Space Telescope, could be delayed or suffer some sort of failure. Since the JWST will be at the L2 point, servicing will be impossible."

Comments

Re:Wrong

[aborchers]

Spend that money on ground based observatories with advanced systems that allow better than hubble imaging from earth.

Which of those advanced systems are going to allow for observing at wavelengths to which our atmosphere is opaque?

Re:Wrong

[nadamsieee]

Which of the wavelengths that the hubble can shoot which ground based cannot will fail to be served far, far better by Webb?

All of them, if Webb has a failure. That's the whole point of saving Hubble.

Re:This is a great idea!

[TrueBuckeye]

I'm not going to discount the value of a manned mission to Mars, but if there's anyway that can be done without having it mandate the end of Hubble, then we need to do it. Hubble has not only been nothing less than an incredible boon to science, it is also very near the only positive PR that the space program has had in better than a decade. The value of that is almost immeasureable.