New Life For Old Space Telescopes?

Spitzer Space Telescope
Credit: NASA-JPL/Caltech
NASA is still assessing proposals from SpaceX and eight other companies for boosting the Hubble Space Telescope into a higher orbit. But the 33-year-old telescope is not the only member of the NASA Great Observatories program to catch the eye of the fledgling in-space repair and services industry...
Irene Klotz

Irene Klotz is Senior Space Editor for Aviation Week, based in Cape Canaveral. Before joining Aviation Week in 2017, Irene spent 25 years as a wire service reporter covering human and robotic spaceflight, commercial space, astronomy, science and technology for Reuters and United Press International.

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