Hubble Space Telescope upgrade on hold
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - A long-delayed and nearly canceled upgrade to the Hubble Space Telescope will have to wait until NASA completes delivery of three modules to the International Space Station, officials said on Tuesday.
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The ground-breaking Hubble Space Telescope faces the axe under Nasa's 2006 budget plans.
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By ALEX DOMINGUEZ  BALTIMORE - The main camera on the Hubble Space Telescope shut down again over the weekend, the third outage in less than a year for the instrument, NASA announced Monday.
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By Traci Watson The flagship instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope has failed and can't be fully repaired, NASA officials said Monday. The Advanced Camera for Surveys took the snapshot of the universe in its infancy that is one of Hubble's most famous images.
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Shuttle astronauts would do a better job of upgrading the ailing Hubble Space Telescope than robots, a panel of space experts has said.
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NASA&#39;s plan to send a robot into space to repair the ailing Hubble Space Telescope is unlikely to succeed, according to a new report from the National Academy of Sciences.
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On its 11-day Hubble mission in August, NASA says engineers will install a pair of new scientific instruments and attempt to fix two older modules that produced important work before failing.
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Trying to save the famed Hubble Space Telescope with a robot would cost &#36;2 billion with just a 50-50 chance of success, an aerospace research group is advising NASA in the coming days.
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Company hasn't said when the device will be available.
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-- NASA's chief is urging his Hubble Space Telescope team to press ahead with plans for a robotic repair mission to the aging observatory, saying, "Let's go save the Hubble."    Administrator Sean O'Keefe says he will ask Congress for money to accomplish the job. He estimates it will take about $1 billion to $1.6 billion to develop and launch a robot to make the needed upgrades to keep the popular telescope running and to get it out of orbit once its work is through...
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A Canadian team&#39;s bid to launch the country&#39;s first manned spaceship is on hold, although the aspiring astronauts have not given up their attempt to win a $10 million prize.
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NASA has given the go-ahead to a Canadian firm to work on a possible robot-salvage mission to the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). The contract is valued at &#36;154 million and builds on the space robotics work of MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) Ltd through its MD Robotics group in Brampton, Ontario.
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A well-researched study by the National Academy of Sciences makes a persuasive case for refurbishing the Hubble Space Telescope. NASA, which is reluctant to take this mission, should rethink its position.
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Support is growing for a human mission to be sent to repair the Hubble space telescope instead of robots.
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Earlier this year, NASA administrator Sean O&#39;Keefe nixed a final shuttle service mission to Hubble scheduled for mid-2006, saying it posed too much of a risk to the lives of astronauts.
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The space agency taps Lockheed Martin and MD Robotics to build robotic technology it may use to repair the ailing Hubble Space Telescope. By Amit Asaravala.
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The Hubble space telescope&#39;s chances of survival were dealt a blow yesterday after the US National Academy of Sciences said plans for a robotic repair mission were both exorbitant and risky.