Hubble Space Telescope

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A telescope in orbit of the earth, named after the American astronomer Edwin Hubble.

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James Webb Space Telescope

The JWST will replace the HST at the end of its mission.

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Edwin Powell Hubble

The Hubble Space Telescope is named after the astronomer Edwin Hubble.

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Final Servicing Mission

STS-125 was the final mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope.  It was flown by the space shuttle Atlantis and carried two new instruments:

  • Cosmic Origins Spectrograph
  • Wide Field Camera 3

The mission also replaced several components and instruments.

Created by jwalgren 05 Apr 2010

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jwalgren

The Hubble Space Telescope showed us the countless galaxies that there are in the Universe.

06 Oct 2009

jwalgren

The Hubble Space Telescope is due to be replaced by the James Webb Space Telescope no earlier than June of 2013.

23 Jan 2009