Proposed Mission Seeks to Resurrect Retired Spitzer Telescope
For more than three years, NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has been idly coasting around the Sun while locked in a retirement safe mode,while its successor, the Webb Telescope, took over its cosmic observation duties. An upcoming servicing mission, however, could give the old telescope a new purpose: protecting Earth from dangerous asteroids.Astronomers Could Soon Get Warnings When SpaceX Satellites Threaten Their ViewThis week, Washington-based company Rhea Space Activity announced that it has been selected to develop…