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NASA delays James Webb Space Telescope launch date by at least seven months

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Re: Hubble revisited

Hubble's mirror and a big chunk of the bus sized main body will survive rentry and you really wouldn't want it to land on you.

There was a plan to use the Shuttle to either boost it to a parking orbit or add a motor to allow a controlled rentry - but the shuttle got canned before that could happen.

Current plan is to point out that it is in an orbit which barely touches florida and so can't land on anybody imortant

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