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This doesn't make any sense. L2 is 1.5 million kilometers away from Earth (4 times the distance to the moon!), while Hubble currently orbits at about 540 km. Mo
by Denvercoder9 4y ago
This doesn't make any sense. L2 is 1.5 million kilometers away from Earth (4 times the distance to the moon!), while Hubble currently orbits at about 540 km. Moving it to L2 will make it much, much harder to service. Once we have technology to do servicing missions at L2, doing another one in LEO will be child's play.
- 1970-01-01 4y agoIf this is the very last service mission, pushing Hubble to L2 does make sense. More reboost missions will cost more than its current value. But if you just happen to have a Webb refuel mission in the two decades, you can add-on a Hubble service mission with very low cost and extend its value one more time.
- outworlder 4y agoSpace is big. Just because both are in L2 doesn't mean they will be close.
- 1970-01-01 4y agoIt's a configurable setting
- baq 4y agoIt’s also not that expensive to change planes that far out so being close isn’t a big requirement
- Dylan16807 4y agoWhen you have months to scoot between them, they might as well be a hundred feet apart.