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To: Red Badger

Sorry ... no. Pointing and tracking is done with reaction wheels. It depended on service visits from the Shuttle for orbit stabilization.

IIRC, the original plan actually was to bring it home at the end of a shuttle mission. That’s obviously not going to happen.


50 posted on 03/07/2014 7:44:36 AM PST by NorthMountain
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To: NorthMountain

IIRC, the ESA has plans for another Hubble-like space telescope with much more technology inside that will allow us to see even further and more higher resolution than the Hubble.................


53 posted on 03/07/2014 8:58:30 AM PST by Red Badger (LIberal is an oxymoron......................)
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