SpaceX, NASA look at launching Dragons to service Hubble Space Telescope
to look into sending a Dragon capsule to Hubble, to boost the observatory's orbit and perhaps assist it in other ways as well."We want to benefit Hubble. And if benefiting Hubble means not just boosting it but also providing some servicing, and that can be done with a human spaceflight mission, all the better," Jessica Jensen, vice president of customer operations and integration at SpaceX, said during a press conference today."So, it's all on the table.
And a Dragon Hubble mission, should it come to pass, wouldn't necessarily need to be crewed, she added. The feasibility study might point planners toward an uncrewed mission, with Dragon or perhaps even a different type of vehicle. But Hubble's orbit has decayed a bit over the past 33 years due to atmospheric drag. The telescope currently zooms around Earth at an altitude of about 335 miles , roughly 38 miles lower than its initial orbit.
NASA won't let things come to that, however; the agency plans to deorbit Hubble in a controlled fashion when its observing days are done. That will requireto haul it down safely. NASA would likely aim to launch the deorbit mission by the end of the 2020s, Crouse said.
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