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NASA Unveils Hubble's Successor

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the new-and-improved dept.

dalutong writes "BBC News has an article detailing NASA's replacement for the much-loved Hubble telescope. The $4.5 billion telescope will be placed in orbit 1.5 million km from Earth and will be almost three times the size of the Hubble. It is set to launch in 2013. They also plan to service the Hubble in 2008."

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  1. color me not impressed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    It was bad enough when they named a telescope after Webster Hubbell, but now they're naming one after Jim Webb, Virginia's juinor senator? Maybe if they want to be taken seriously, they should name it after, I don't know, AN ASTRONOMER????

  2. Haha by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    What's the purpose? Why spend money on sending men to the moon when people are starving on this planet? Do you know what that money could buy for some poor people?!

    1. Re: Haha by Black+Parrot · · Score: -1, Troll

      What's the purpose? Why spend money on sending men to the moon when people are starving on this planet? Do you know what that money could buy for some poor people?! Better yet, it could pay off 0.5% of George's Big Iraqi Adventure.
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  3. Bush is stupid with only one camera in big space by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Hubble in the space = only one photo camera in the space!

    Why not 10 different evolved Hubble-like in the space?

    Hubble is too old like any old non-digital analog camera.

    The Hubble's succesors will be digital, >= 12 Megapixels, like any modern camera.
    And their instruments are pluggable/unpluggable autonomously to be replaced by a new future technology!!!

    Arrmmaggeddonn!!!

  4. Truly pathetic! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Bit funny that this new telescope will be launched by the French eh?

    Despite the vast amounts of cash that the yanks have sunk into their space program it seems they cant even launch stuff into orbit!!! LOL!!!

    Ok, so they did get a man on the moon b4 anyone else...lets not forget that eh!

    And don't forget the space shuttle, that has streamlined the process of...launching satel...no wait, hear me out...

  5. Re:Why not build two? by soft_guy · · Score: 0, Troll

    Why not build zero? That would save on cost.

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  6. Yuo fail It!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    win out; Either the WHEN I STOOD FOR