Mon, Jan 19, 2004 - Page 7 News List

Hubble doomed by budget problems

SCIENTISTS DEVASTATED The space telescope is expected to crash into the Earth's atmosphere in 2011 following NASA's decision to cancel its next servicing mission

AFP , WASHINGTON

NASA plans to put a new-generation orbital observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope, into orbit in 2009.

In addition to Hubble, NASA has three other telescopes orbiting the Earth: the Chandra X-ray Observatory, the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory and the infrared Spitzer Space Telescope.

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