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by NikolaeVarius 1661 days ago
Museum
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But the Hubble could be useful for another century.

Talk about inspirational.

It's kind of limping along. It could gather images for a lot longer but it's hardware like gyroscopes are starting to fail. IMO the money to refurbish it would be better spent making a new instrument and cheaper too since you'd just need to build and launch not launch, capture, land, refurb, and relaunch.