Hubble Origins Probe
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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. [1]
Funding for the mission was never allocated; in December 2004 the NASA administrator who had cancelled SM4 resigned, and his replacement reinstated the servicing mission making HOP redundant.
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- ^ Lawler, A. (2005). "ASTRONOMY: Hearing Highlights Dispute over Hubble's Future". Science 307 (5711): 831. doi:10.1126/science.307.5711.831. PMID 15705817.
