http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/30/hubbles-main-camera-could-be-calling-it-quits/ Engadget Comments for Hubble's main camera could be calling it quits http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/30/hubbles-main-camera-could-be-calling-it-quits/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/30/hubbles-main-camera-could-be-calling-it-quits/
i love space because of the pics that were caught from the hubble. What do u guys think will happen now?]]>Jan 30th 2007 12:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/30/hubbles-main-camera-could-be-calling-it-quits/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/30/hubbles-main-camera-could-be-calling-it-quits/
I think it's worth it to save the Hubble Space Telescope.
It's done a ton of good science, and can do more still.]]>Jan 30th 2007 12:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/30/hubbles-main-camera-could-be-calling-it-quits/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/30/hubbles-main-camera-could-be-calling-it-quits/Jan 30th 2007 12:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/30/hubbles-main-camera-could-be-calling-it-quits/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/30/hubbles-main-camera-could-be-calling-it-quits/Jan 30th 2007 12:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/30/hubbles-main-camera-could-be-calling-it-quits/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/30/hubbles-main-camera-could-be-calling-it-quits/Jan 30th 2007 12:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/30/hubbles-main-camera-could-be-calling-it-quits/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/30/hubbles-main-camera-could-be-calling-it-quits/Jan 30th 2007 1:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/30/hubbles-main-camera-could-be-calling-it-quits/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/30/hubbles-main-camera-could-be-calling-it-quits/
The telescope itself was launched in 1990 and was supposed to last 15 years. Again, bang.

On the other hand, look at the Mars rovers which lasted well beyond their predicted lifetimes.

I will be sad to see this amazing piece of technology go but look forward to its replacement which no doubt will produce even more amazing images.

]]>Jan 30th 2007 12:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/30/hubbles-main-camera-could-be-calling-it-quits/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/30/hubbles-main-camera-could-be-calling-it-quits/
The funny thing is that although Hubble is now practically useless, NASA is still going to waste billions "fixing" it. What a joke.]]>Jan 30th 2007 1:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/30/hubbles-main-camera-could-be-calling-it-quits/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/30/hubbles-main-camera-could-be-calling-it-quits/Jan 30th 2007 2:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/30/hubbles-main-camera-could-be-calling-it-quits/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/30/hubbles-main-camera-could-be-calling-it-quits/Jan 30th 2007 1:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/30/hubbles-main-camera-could-be-calling-it-quits/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/30/hubbles-main-camera-could-be-calling-it-quits/Anyway, I think your comment is pathetic.
...ensure our species' ultimate survival...
Yeah, thats really easy to say coming from a very rich country. You don't have to deal with poverty.

And its not about spending or not (I agree that were talking about a very noble cause here).

Its about how much.
You're talking about billions a year (literally).
Too much.]]>Jan 30th 2007 1:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/30/hubbles-main-camera-could-be-calling-it-quits/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/30/hubbles-main-camera-could-be-calling-it-quits/Jan 30th 2007 2:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/30/hubbles-main-camera-could-be-calling-it-quits/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/30/hubbles-main-camera-could-be-calling-it-quits/
I, for one, really do hope that NASA decides to repair Hubble.]]>Jan 30th 2007 1:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/30/hubbles-main-camera-could-be-calling-it-quits/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/30/hubbles-main-camera-could-be-calling-it-quits/Jan 30th 2007 3:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/30/hubbles-main-camera-could-be-calling-it-quits/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/30/hubbles-main-camera-could-be-calling-it-quits/Jan 30th 2007 9:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/30/hubbles-main-camera-could-be-calling-it-quits/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/30/hubbles-main-camera-could-be-calling-it-quits/
I've been wondering. Hubble is getting pretty old and worn, so why doesn't the world space community get together to build a newer, more advanced space telescope? It would have to be launched by the Europeans or Russians, probably, but it could still be done.

I think it'd be a nice statement of international scientific collaboration and cooperation.]]>Jan 30th 2007 2:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/30/hubbles-main-camera-could-be-calling-it-quits/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/30/hubbles-main-camera-could-be-calling-it-quits/
Has the Hubble officially "jumped the shark" yet?]]>Jan 30th 2007 2:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/30/hubbles-main-camera-could-be-calling-it-quits/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/30/hubbles-main-camera-could-be-calling-it-quits/
Wake up man, human beings never advanced by expending all of it's resources on the bottom teirs of society, they advanced by giving the top the resources the ability to reach higher and higher goals. Hubble should be saved, it's not at all connected with misfortune of people on Earth, since there will ALWAYS be poor people. No effort of any great power in Earth's history has at all made any dent in the lifestyle of the poor and forgotten, in my opinion THAT is a project that needs to be put in "minimum maintenece".

I'd like to see Hubble brought down and put in the Smithsonian. I know it won't happen but I'd still like to see it.]]>Jan 30th 2007 2:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/30/hubbles-main-camera-could-be-calling-it-quits/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/30/hubbles-main-camera-could-be-calling-it-quits/Jan 30th 2007 4:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/30/hubbles-main-camera-could-be-calling-it-quits/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/30/hubbles-main-camera-could-be-calling-it-quits/=) I will miss all the space porn. I wonder why nasa has to declasify the photos? Any one else wondered about that? Is there some photo of God we shouldnt see? Or aliens? Or better yet a chinese resturant feeding ants to hungry space travelers?
]]>Jan 31st 2007 2:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/30/hubbles-main-camera-could-be-calling-it-quits/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/30/hubbles-main-camera-could-be-calling-it-quits/
The replacement for the Hubble is the James Webb telescope:

http://www.jwst.nasa.gov/

If you'd read the article you might have noticed that mention.

Despite the failure of the ACS telescope, there are a number of functioning instruments still left on the Hubble which can do valuable work, which is why they are still planning a mission to repair the rest of the scope.

The Hubble has survived 15 years in the second harshest environment known to man (the seafloor is harsher - the pressure is actively trying to crush you), which is a pretty damn good record.]]>Jan 31st 2007 12:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/30/hubbles-main-camera-could-be-calling-it-quits/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/30/hubbles-main-camera-could-be-calling-it-quits/First, would it be possible to attach hubble to Space Station Freedom and have them fix it?

Second, the U.S. is the leading exporter of food and charity in the world. NO ONE gives as much as we do, or as high a percentage of what we have. Natural selection dictates that all species if the reside in the wrong enviroment or overpopulat thier enviroment will have problems and die. Yet we do help them. We can spend our money on what we want, it is our money! And our spending has made us a leader in developing solutions, medicine, technology, food. So get off your self righteous high horse and take your socialist ass out into the world and grow up. I've been shot at trying to feed stupid ass Africa, let em kill themselves, thier backward society should save itself. The us overcame the leading superpower in it's day to liberate themselves. Hell even france freed itself, and they never win. ]]>Jan 31st 2007 2:51PM