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Hubble is broken

jtkohl@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jtkohl@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Jun 27 22:27:37 1990

NBC reports that NASA has officially admitted to problems with the HST.
Its mirrors are either mis-aligned or mis-ground, such that the focus
onto the imaging area is improper, leading to double images and
fuzziness.

$1.5B nearly down the tubes...but NASA will plan on a repair of some
sort.

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