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After Hubble; what's next?
Topic Started: May 17 2007, 06:54 AM (126 Views)
big al
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A look at the successor to the Hubble space telescope:

NASA gets bigger, better with new space telescope

Big Al
Location: Western PA

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kenny
HOLY CARP!!!
Wow, that's very very cool to read about.
Hubble gave us so many surprises, can you imagine what this will teach us?

I only worry that it will be located beyond the reach of repair missions.

Didn't they discovered the Hubble's optics were defective only after it was launched and started up?
Opps.

Plus they have upgraded hubble several times by visiting it.
Visits will be impossible on this new one.
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The 89th Key
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That is really, really cool. State of the art technology, at it's very finest. Two points, however:

1) What if they look so far back into the Universe, that they see God? What will you cat-worshipers do then? :D
2) Let's hope the rocket that takes this $4,500,000,000 telescope, doesn't blow up during the launch! :hair:
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JBryan
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It will orbit at a Lagrange point (not circling the earth but orbiting around a line running between earth and sun) 1.5 million miles from earth. That is beyond the orbit of the moon. They had better get it right because there will be no manned service missions.
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