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NASA: robot idea for Hubble Space Telescope

New York, USA - It would start already in 2007 to repair urgent damages and upgrade

NASA has selected a Canadian-made robot for an unmanned mission, after Columbia crash (see news AVIONEWS), to repair and upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope. The robot mission would start already in 2007, and it will be able to assure telescope other 5 years of scientific discoveries (now it’s 15). The most probably upgrade operations will be the batteries change and monitoring gyroscopes keeping H...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 101670
Rome, Italy, 08/12/2004 12:48
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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