NASA and SpaceX Will Study Low-Cost Plan to Give Hubble a Boost - by b0yle
“Frankly, Hubble is more exciting than ever, because it now is a complementary asset next to the James Webb Space Telescope in a different frequency range, with a different viewpoint,” Zurbuchen said.
Jensen and Zurbuchen portrayed the mission as an opportunity to demonstrate technologies that could be applied to other space science projects in near-Earth orbit.
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