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mtlmtlmtlmtltoday at 2:46 AM1 replyview on HN

I often think about the shuttle program in relation to all these crazy complicated, wildly expensive, and incredibly fragile space telescopes we're sending to LEO or the Earth-Sun L2. Would be damn useful to be able to repair/upgrade these things like with Hubble.

Obviously I realise the shuttle program was pretty far away from being able to head out to the Earth-Sun L2(AB, and wasn't even working towards it. But man, it would be nice to have that ability.


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nradovtoday at 4:15 AM

Really? Seems like it would be cheaper to build extra telescopes (economy of scale). When one of them breaks, just launch another.