Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Hubble Space Telescope
Message-ID: <1989Dec11.212002.493@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <14089@grebyn.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 89 21:20:02 GMT

In article <14089@grebyn.com> pat@grebyn.UUCP (Pat Bahn) writes:
>...  Now are there any plans or
>capabilities to reboost HST?  She does not have thrusters to nudge her
>about as far as I know...

HST is definitely scheduled for a shuttle visit a few years from now, to
change instruments and reboost.  There was some concern that this might
have to be moved up with abnormally high solar activity.

>	WOuld it be better to delay (I can hear the screams from
>baltimore)  HST one year till after the peak?  ...

There was talk of doing this, but the astronomers were understandably upset,
and I believe the final conclusion was that it wasn't necessary if major
efforts were made to get the telescope into the highest possible orbit to
start with.
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1755 EST, Dec 14, 1972:  human |     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
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