Re: MSNBC - How a 'safe haven' could help save Hubble

From: Neil Halelamien (neuronexmachina_at_gmail.com)
Date: 12/09/04 

Date: 9 Dec 2004 09:46:04 -0800

> That's exactaly why we need to do this now, and why its worth $2.2
billion, so we can have that software and use it on all sorts of future
missions.

The problem is, on future missions we have the ability to design the
environment (i.e. the spacecraft/satellite we're docking with) such
that it's customized for a robot to deal with. Having fiducials painted
on Hubble's surface and handles designed for robots would make the
repair task orders of magnitude easier.

The robotic mission to Hubble would have to solve an entire host of
problems which we won't necessarily have to deal with in later
missions. I'm a hard-core advocate of robotic exploration and servicing
myself, but Hubble repair isn't the place for it.

-- Neil

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