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Sort of. The broken optics famously got fixed in the first HST shuttle mission, and there have been other replacements over time. A lot of it is the same, thoug
by zabzonk 5y ago
Sort of. The broken optics famously got fixed in the first HST shuttle mission, and there have been other replacements over time. A lot of it is the same, though.
And of course, the HST is in LEO, which means it is reachable with current rocket tech, which the James Webb, being situated at L2 won't be. But that's not to say you could not have a large platform at L2 (or another Lagrange point) that could be serviced by robots, or even manned craft, if it was designed that way.
- GekkePrutser 5y agoBut Hubble wasn't a one-off design. It shared a lot of design elements with other space telescopes that are more earth-focused :) So it had a lot more benefits of scale than JWST.
- minitoar 5y agoI guess my point was: without that servicing it would’ve been a pretty short life span (literally 0?). The swarm approach helps with this.