Hubble Space Telescope

1990 · NASA · Low Earth orbit · On-going

Agency: NASA
Status: On-going
Destination: Low Earth orbit
Launch Date: 1990-04-24

Objective

Launched with a mirror ground to the wrong shape by 2.2 micrometres, corrected by astronauts in 1993, and serviced five times. The only telescope ever repaired in orbit.

Open on the Cosmic Exploration shelf — the interactive card, the filters, and everything alongside it.

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