NASA Plans to Bring Down 'Dying' Hubble Telescope
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The aging Hubble Space Telescope --  a path-breaking scientific instrument whose eye-catching images  have won fans around the world -- would die in orbit under the  2006 budget for NASA proposed on Monday.
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Amid uncertainty over the fate of the Hubble Space Telescope and with a key instrument not working, NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe gave the go-ahead Monday for planning a robotic servicing mission.
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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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The main camera on the Hubble Space Telescope has shut down unexpectedly for the second time this year, the operators of the orbiting observatory announced Friday.
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By Tri-City Herald, Kennewick, Wash.  Mar. 1--Mid-Columbia astronomers are worried the final management plan for the Hanford Reach National Monument could call for tearing down one of the highest quality telescopes available for public use in the Northwest.
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Last week's news that the orbiting Hubble  observatory's most productive and far-seeing camera may be irreparably damaged sent a chill through the world of astronomy. Even if astronauts return to the Hubble next year as planned to repair and replace several instruments, fixing the electrical malfunction in the Advanced Camera for Surveys is not expected to be on the schedule....
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The primary camera on the Hubble Space Telescope has shut down and is likely to be only marginally restored, NASA said yesterday, a collapse one astronomer called "a great loss."
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If NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) fireballs into Earth's atmosphere on its own, the reentry of that massive orbiting observatory violates the space agency's own safety standard.
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At the world's largest radio telescope, astronomers searching for asteroids on a collision course with Earth are bracing for a more worldly threat: The steepest budget cuts and first layoffs since the observatory opened in 1963.
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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.
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Shuttle astronauts would do a better job of upgrading NASA's aging Hubble Space Telescope than space-faring robots -- with less risk, astronautical experts reported on Wednesday.
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By Dennis O'Brien, The Baltimore Sun  Jan. 30--A workhorse deep space camera on the Hubble Space Telescope has shut down for the third time in less than a year, and NASA scientists say that only a fraction of its capability will be restored.
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The nation&#39;s most prominent science advisers Wednesday urged NASA to send shuttle astronauts instead of robots on a repair mission to the aging Hubble telescope because humans have a substantially greater chance of fixing it.
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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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Trying to save the famed Hubble Space Telescope (news - web sites) with a robot would cost $2 billion with just a 50-50 chance of success, an aerospace
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NASA is preparing to launch a new space telescope named GLAST to study the most violent explosions in the history of our Universe.
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Description: NASA is considering an unprecedented robotic mission to save the Hubble Space telescope. But a final report from the National Academy of Sciences says the robotic mission probably won&#39;t be ready on time to save the telescope.