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Hubble glitch renews talk about private servicing mission - SpaceNews (spacenews.com)

submitted 11 months ago by llamacoffee@lemmy.world to c/spacex@sh.itjust.works

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I cannot express just how much I want this to happen.

No attempt = hubble will fail and reenter

Attempt(failure) = same

Attempt(success) = hubble continues groundbreaking science and, after some time, can be brought back to earth via Starship to become a museum piece that inspires generations!!

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[–] sorghum@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The starliner configuration is designed to take 100 people into leo and back. I think that alone could be close to the 12 tons that Hubble weighs. It'll be interesting to see capabilities when the variants are produced, specifically the cargo version for me.

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The starliner configuration

Are you referring to Starship? Starliner is a Boeing project.

[–] sorghum@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

Yes, my bad. Testing a new keyboard with gesture typing. I should've caught that

[–] n00b001@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It would be great if/when that happens, but it's a few years off the Elon deadline ATM, and doesn't look close to operation soon

[–] sorghum@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

I think the current mission being explored is docking a dragon trunk and boosting it and servicing it. That could buy us enough time until starship cargo is ready. STS-125 added a docking port for capture, which is going to be used by a satellite to deorbit if it comes time to do that.