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They want to give it an exciting new job.from the US Space Force to plan a mission to breathe new life into NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, which has been orbiting the Sun in safe mode for three years following its retirement.
Spitzer has 16 years of infrared light observations under its belt, but was retired in early 2020 and later succeeded by the James Webb Space Telescope in 2021. In other words, the company is hoping to resurrect Spitzer to help us spot hazardous asteroids before it's too late, in a thrifty plan that would make use of powerful hardware that's already in orbit.Reviving the retired space telescope won't be an easy feat. As of right now, it's circling the Sun at twice the distance between the Earth and the Sun.
Fortunately, the startup has plenty of well-established partners to help it realize its visions, including the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and aerospace giant Lockheed Martin.
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