NASA to reveal their decision on Hubble telescope next week

NASA Administrator Michael Griffin is expected to announce next week whether they would be sending a space shuttle on a mission to repair the Hubble Telescope.

News sources say that if they go ahead with their plans to repair the Hubble, a mission would take astronauts to space to fix the telescope’s batteries and stabilizing gyroscopes. They might also add on extra equipment for further research.

However, if the Hubble is not repair, its batteries could fail as soon as 2008 and the gyroscopes a year later. This was revealed by Matt Mountain, of the Space Telescope Science Institute.

Mountain said in a statement that the repairs would make it a brand new observatory. NASA has conducted four repair missions for the Hubble Telescope since 1990.