NASA announced Thursday that it is partnering with SpaceX on a study using the company’s Dragon spacecraft to boost the space agency’s Hubble Space Telescope into a higher orbit. NASA and SpaceX signed a Space Act Agreement to look into such a flight. Agreement signed by NASA and Space Exploration Technologies Corp. called for cooperation on a feasibility study for such a mission, although NASA has not yet committed to such a flight. NASA said SpaceX is funding its own participation in the study.
“We obviously have a lot of experience,” from previous SpaceX missions with the International Space Station, Jessica Jensen, vice president of customer operations and integration at SpaceX, said at a NASA news conference. “We want to use that as our foundation.”
