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From: sysmgr@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU (Doug Mohney)
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Subject: Re: Recovering HST from orbit
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Date: 13 Feb 91 18:56:57 GMT
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In article <1638@mpirbn.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de>, p515dfi@mpirbn.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Daniel Fischer) writes:

>Certainly not within the next 15 years, that's for sure. BUT: what will they
>do with HST after the nominal mission is over in 2005? Without any further STS
>visit it would reenter a few years later (due to a viewgraph seen at an HST
>news conference at ESTEC a year ago) - another Salut coming? Have there ever
>been plans made public on a final HST recovery or in-orbit destruction or
>whatever mission to end its orbital life?

Well, they could pull it down and look at it as a long-life test article for
materials in orbit. Or they could refit it with enhanced cameras and boost
the orbit somehow and keep it running for another 15 years.

Or bring it back and put it in the Air and Space Museum :-)


 Doug Mohney, Operations Manager, CAD Lab/ME, Univ. of Maryland College Park
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