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Old 20th May 2024 | 22:37
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Maybe, if Starship gets a cargo bay robotic arm. Hubble is 43.5 feet long and 14 feet in diameter and has a mass of 12,000kg, per NASA; that is smaller than the reported volume on Starship, but without a manipulator and an airlock, it would be risky to have people grabbing that mass to wrestle it into the cargo bay without a place to stand.

So far, Starship has had a terrible record and it's not clear that SpaceX will get to the point with Starship that such a mission will ever be possible. They are doing well enough with their Falcon series they may just stick with that.
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