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Proposed orbital telescope

The Hubble Origins Probe (HOP) was a proposal for an orbital telescope made in 2005 in response to the first cancellation of the fourth Hubble Space Telescope (HST) servicing mission. It would have used an Atlas V rocket or similar launch vehicle to launch a much lighter, unaberrated mirror and optical telescope assembly, using the instruments that had already been built for SM4, along with a new wide-field imager. It would have cost between $700 million and $1 billion.

Funding for the mission was never allocated; in February 2005, Sean O'Keefe, the NASA administrator who had cancelled SM4, resigned. Michael D. Griffin, NASA administrator after O'Keefe, reinstated the servicing missions, making HOP redundant.

References

  1. "Hubble Option" (Press release). Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. 2005. Archived from the original on 2005-03-06. Retrieved 30 June 2013.
  2. Lawler, A. (2005). "ASTRONOMY: Hearing Highlights Dispute over Hubble's Future". Science. 307 (5711): 831. doi:10.1126/science.307.5711.831. PMID 15705817. S2CID 152395132.
  3. Harwood, William (31 October 2006). "'Go' for Hubble servicing mission". CBS NEWS Space Place. Retrieved 1 July 2013.

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