NASA To Assess Commercial Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission

Mark Carreau September 30, 2022

Hubble

Credit: NASA
HOUSTON—Under an unfunded Space Act Agreement, NASA and SpaceX plan to study the feasibility of a commercial Dragon mission to raise the orbital altitude of the 32-year-old Hubble Space Telescope (HST), potentially extending its operations into the 2030s. The planned six-month study was announced...
Mark Carreau

Mark is based in Houston, where he has written on aerospace for more than 25 years. While at the Houston Chronicle, he was recognized by the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement Foundation in 2006 for his professional contributions to the public understanding of America's space program through news reporting.

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