servermonkey: (Worried Dino)
servermonkey ([personal profile] servermonkey) wrote2004-08-07 01:51 pm

R.I.P. Hubble

Apparently, the imaging spectograph on it has failed.

Completely unrelated, but even my 78 year old co-worker knows Rick James' Superfreak. Surprised me, to say the least.

[identity profile] chandrax93.livejournal.com 2004-08-07 06:38 pm (UTC)(link)
I really hope they leave it up there. Maryland is developing a robot that is considered one of the frontrunners for robotic orbital repair (CNNs words, not mine!). We even had a spot on a shuttle mission once upon a time (though that got cancelled when they stopped doing science flights in favor of ISS assembly, something else the robot could do).

[identity profile] servermonkey.livejournal.com 2004-08-07 07:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Send the robot! I sometimes wish things were as easily decided as that.