{"id":462,"date":"2004-06-02T12:29:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-02T19:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/robots-in-space\/"},"modified":"2004-06-02T12:29:00","modified_gmt":"2004-06-02T19:29:00","slug":"robots-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/02\/robots-in-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Robots in space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like the idea of sending <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/news\/news.jsp\">robots to repair Hubble<\/a> is gaining some steam.  They wouldn&#8217;t be able to do everything you could do with a servicing mission, but they could install new instruments and gyros to keep the telescope running for quite a while longer.  (Or not &#8212; if it&#8217;s deemed unfeasible, they might use a robot just to prepare the satellite for re-entry into the atmosphere.)  It will be up to the engineers to build robots that can reliably do the job, which isn&#8217;t easy; but my bet is that it can be done.  This challenge has actually energized a lot of folks at NASA, and fixing the Space Telescope is a goal everyone can agree on.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like the idea of sending robots to repair Hubble is gaining some steam. They wouldn&#8217;t be able to do everything you could do with a servicing mission, but they could install new instruments and gyros to keep the telescope running for quite a while longer. (Or not &#8212; if it&#8217;s deemed unfeasible, they might [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}