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re: How much would it cost to keep the Hubble in service?

Quite.

It would be considerably cheaper to launch a replacement (see Hubble Origins Probe)

The benefits of Hubble are reducing - look at the work from Keck et.al now - matching Hubble in some wavelengths.

I'd rather they just whacked a de-orbit stage on remotely, perhaps with some plugin power capacity and gyros to extend mission for a little while, but it's just not worth bothering about that much imho.

Doug

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