NASA Opens the Door to Private Missions That Could Boost, Upgrade, or Safely Retire the Hubble Telescope
Nature World News | 07.11.2026 06:16
One day after NASA's Swift observatory burned up over Indonesia, the agency made clear it does not want the Hubble Space Telescope to end the same way. NASA is asking private companies how they could push Hubble into a higher orbit, upgrade it, or guide it to a safe, controlled end, and any such mission would need to fly by 2032.
