The aging space telescope retired after 16 years of service, but a servicing mission could help bring Spitzer back to life as a surveyor of dangerous asteroids.
The Spitzer Resurrector Mission, in partnership with the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Blue Sun Enterprises, and Lockheed Martin, would“This would be the most complex robotic mission ever performed by humanity.”Using in-space service assembly and manufacturing techniques developed by the Department of the Air Force and the U.S.
detect and characterize potentially hazardous Near Earth Objects. “The ISAM implications of resurrecting Spitzer are jaw dropping,” Shawn Usman, CEO of Rhea, said in the company’s statement. “This would be the most complex robotic mission ever performed by humanity.”ut the telescope kept on going, observing comets, asteroids, and even finding a previously unidentified ring around Saturn.
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