Pasadena, California — NASA'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).
Do you remember seeing NASA's Space Shuttle astronauts working on the Hubble Space Telescope out in space? 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 roughly a million miles (1.5 million kilometers) away.
"HWO will have to be serviceable to some extent," NASA's astrophysics division director Shawn Domagal-Goldman told Space.com during a session at the American Astronomical Society's (AAS) 248th meeting in Pasadena, California.
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