US Space Force startup Rhea Space Activity has received the funding needed to plan a mission to “revive” the Spitzer Space Telescope. It has been in so-called safe mode for three years.
In the future, however, the telescope in question should no longer be used for space research (it will be replaced in this area in 2021 by the much more advanced James Webb Space Telescope), but for the detection of potentially dangerous near-Earth objects.
However, getting it back into operation would definitely not be easy. Among other things because NASA can no longer contact him, so the above company would have to send some service equipment to him.
“It would be the most complex robotic mission ever undertaken by mankind,” he admitted in a press release from astrophysicist and CEO of Rhea Space Activity, Shawn Usman.
“As a teenager in the 1990s, I watched American astronauts repair the first Great Observatory, the Hubble Space Telescope, and now Rhea Space Activity has been given the opportunity to telerobotically extend the life of the last Great Observatory, the Spitzer Space Telescope,” he added.
Theoretically, this project could be realized by 2026, however, due to its high level of demands, in our opinion, this is not very likely.
2023-05-16 09:45:09
#startup #revive #Spitzer #Space #Telescope #received #money #Space #Force
