NASA plans to extend Hubble mission through 2021
JUN 27, 2016
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.029920
New Scientist : On 23 June, NASA announced that it intends to continue using the Hubble Space Telescope through June 2021. Launched in 1990 and last serviced in 2009, Hubble can easily continue working into the 2020s, NASA says. The extension of Hubble means the telescope will still be in use when its successor, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), is launched in 2018. Using the two telescopes in tandem will provide a valuable opportunity to study objects with Hubble‘s visible and UV cameras and JWST‘s IR cameras.
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