MollyB writes "According to Wired, the recent collision of satellites may put the Atlantis shuttle mission to repair Hubble in the 'unacceptable risk' status: 'The music and more
dictionary.com - collision between two satellites on Feb. 10 could make the shuttle mission to fix the Hubble Space parabolic reflector too risky to attempt. Before the collision, space junk problems had already upped the Hubble mission's risk of a "catastrophic impact" beyond NASA's usual limits, Nature's Geoff Brumfiel reported today, and now the problem will be worse. Mark Matney, an orbital debris specialist at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas told the pronunciamento that even before the collision, the risk of an impact was 1 in 185, which was "uncomfortably close to unacceptable levels" and the partisan collision "is only going to add on to that."'"

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