I’ve had a theory about the Hubble for a long time. Remember after it first went up, there was some kind of imperfection in the huge mirror that made the images less than perfect? And the fix required a spacewalk and then the images were astounding. I always thought it was odd that (1) they’d send this multi-billion $$$ device up there with a flaw they weren’t aware of, and (2) this flaw to this huge, precise mirror was so easy to fix that it could be done with a spacewalk and the limitations that presents.
So I think they engineered a way to make the images imperfect, so that they could have a spacewalk to “fix” them, showing how important NASA was, when in reality, the fix was right there in the device already.
I think this is the same thing. This issue with the computer will be used to argue that they just have to have a manned flight to go up and replace the computer that failed.
I think this is the same thing. This issue with the computer will be used to argue that they just have to have a manned flight to go up and replace the computer that failed.
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Except there is no such vehicle and; even the Shuttle, if it still existed, had some difficulty getting to its very high orbit.
“I think this is the same thing.”
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Thinkin’ sumfin’ don’t make it true.
Unless you’re talking about vaccines, then sure!
If you’d like to know what happened:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqZ68VYMRgE
Well let’s start with the flaw: it actually WAS detected but they decided the problem was in the tool that checked the mirror. There were a whole BUNCH of problems with the mirror company.
As for the fix it was by no means easy. They basically had to design mirrors with the reverse of the error to correct the flawed images.
As for the PR really the whole mirror problem was a major black eye for NASA and the fix didn’t really reverse it.
On the current problems, things happen. And it will be fixed. And we DO have to have manned flight. Not necessarily to replace the Hubble’s computer, but because the future is up there and it’s frankly embarrassing and pathetic that we don’t have manned flight capability basically because bureaucracy and nobody in 40+ freaking years can be bothered to green light the shuttle replacement.