Assessment of Options for Extending the Life of the Hubble Space Telescope: Final Report

by Committee on the Assessment of Options f, National Research Council, Louis J. Lanzerotti, et al.

The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has operated continuously since 1990. During that time, four space shuttle-based service missions were launched, three of which added major observational capabilities. A fifth -- SM-4 -- was intended to replace key telescope systems and install two new instruments. The loss of the space shuttle Columbia, however, resulted in a decision by NASA not to pursue the SM-4 mission leading to a likely end of Hubble's useful...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309095301
• ISBN13: 9780309095303
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 160 Pages