The revolutionary telescope has lost 20 miles in altitude in the last 13 years and could eventually fall out of orbit.
Moving the telescope to a higher orbit could give Hubble more years of operability, NASA said.
"What we want to do is expand the boundaries of current technology," SpaceX’s Jessica Jensen, vice president of Customer Relations & Integration, said. "We want to show how we use commercial partnerships as well as the public-private partnerships to creatively solve challenging and complex problem missions such as servicing Hubble."
Without repositioning, NASA may have to eventually destroy the telescope and guide it as it falls from orbit into the ocean, the Times reported.
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