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Study finds fixing Hubble would be costly, iffy.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, December, 2004
By Mark Carreau, Houston Chronicle Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Dec. 6--NASA's plans for unprecedented robotic repairs to the Hubble Space Telescope will cost $2 billion and offer only a 50-50 prospect for success, an aerospace consultant concludes in a soon-to-be finished report.
The study by the Aerospace Corporation, a California-based think tank funded by the Pentagon, also predicts the orbital observatory will experience serious mechanical failures within five years and could plummet to Earth by 2014 if nothing is done.
The bleak outlook sets the stage for an even more far-reaching evaluation of NASA's robotic repair strategy by the National Research Council. The congressionally funded research council turned to the...
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