Hubble, due to be fixed next year by shuttle astronauts, would continue as our eye on the sky until 2013 and the launch of this larger James Webb Space Telescope. It would be parked at L2, about 930,000 miles from home, and therefore inaccessible to the shuttle, which should be retired by then in any case. This one’s hexagonal mirror will be almost three times the size of Hubble’s.
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