Re:SpaceX exploring mission to boost Hubble
by ClumsyPilot on Thursday October 06, 2022 @05:23AM
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Agreed, technologically you can make a robot that can fix a dishwasher that would be specially designed to be repairable.
But if you can't get dishwasher manufacturers to produce repairable dishwashers, then it's all for naught - we have failed as am industry.
Amd if you can get manufacturers to produce repairable dishwashers, then probably those dishwashers can be repaired by random joe opening a repairshop.
And its not clear why we need a robot.
Thats why our industry is a joke, we were promised robots will deliver our food, but instead robots micromanage indentured servants.
The big point here is that this boosting and potentially servicing mission isn't being pitched by NASA. It's a SpaceX proposal connected to their entirely private program to develop EVA capability for Dragon and to eventually test Starship's ability to support crews in space. Thus for NASA it would likely be cheaper than if they were asking for it.
So the reason we likely won't see a robotic servicing of Hubble (from this) is that it doesn't have as much relevance to SpaceX's goals with Polaris Dawn as just docking, orbit raising and maybe crewed servicing does.