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From: s914@GTE.COM (Lawrence Bilker)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Re^2: Hubble Space Telescope
Summary: Why it costs so much (HST) !!
Keywords: astronomical cost of maintenance
Message-ID: <7310@bunny.GTE.COM>
Date: 20 Jul 89 12:41:52 GMT
References: <351@aeras.UUCP> <2983@helios.ee.lbl.gov> <23692@prls.UUCP> <1566@bucket.UUCP>
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In article <1566@bucket.UUCP>, leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson) writes:
> envbvs@epb2.lbl.gov (Brian V. Smith) writes:
> 
> >According to several sources, the cost of storing the HST until 
> >it can be launched is around $10 million PER MONTH.  It has been
> >waiting since about 1985 or so to go up, so this amounts to 
> >several hundred million dollars!
> 
> >Can anyone enlighten me as to why it costs so much just to STORE it?
> 
> I believe it has to be "stored" in a cleanroom. From the clothing
> worn in photos, I'd guess it's a Class 100 cleanroom. Just running
> the air circulation system on a large clean room is expensive! Add
> in the filtration and temperature control and it gets *real*
> expensive.
> 

I read somewhere that it is a class 10,000 clean room.  Which is even more
expensive than a class 100 clean room!

				Larry


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