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Should We Repair Hubble?
Popular Mechanics | May 2007 | Thomas D. Jones
Posted on 04/03/2007 10:49:37 PM EDT by KevinDavis [ahem]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1811616/posts

[snip] If the mission succeeds, Hubble should be in peak observing condition until its replacement, the James Webb Space Telescope, is launched in 2013... Some argue that repairing Hubble is pointless, since ground-based observatories have overtaken its capabilities. But terrestrial telescopes fall short of HST’s resolution by a factor of 10 or more. [end]

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The European Extremely Large Telescope(E-ELT) scheduled to come online in 2017 will exceed the resolution of Hubble by a factor of 10-15 times. Its primary mirror will be 138 ft. across. Here’s a link via PopSCI.

http://www.popsci.com/popsci/aviationspace/ad43b99e388e6110vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html