NASA plans robotic servicing for its Habitable Worlds Observatory alien-hunting telescope
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Chelsea Gohd
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NASA's upcoming Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO), designed to search for alien life, will be designed for in-space servicing — likely using robots rather than astronauts. The telescope will also feature gamma-ray detectors. This marks a return to the serviceable model used for the Hubble Space Telescope, as opposed to the unserviceable James Webb Space Telescope.
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· 2 pulledNASA's new alien-hunting telescope, the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO), will be serviceable out in space (and it will have gamma-ray detectors, to boot).
Well, it will likely be robots this time around, but NASA is planning for HWO to be serviceable, which means that they will need to figure out a way to work on, repair, and maintain the observatory while it operates
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