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Hubble Space Telescope, 1990-Present (8981696018)
Summary
Image Credit: NASA
Description The Hubble Space Telescope was deployed from the Space shuttle Discovery during STS-31 on April 25, 1990. Since then, there have been 5 servicing missions that continued to upgrade the telescope's scientific instruments and operational systems.
This is a cutaway image of the Hubble Space Telescope showing the instruments and components locations within the spacecraft.
Hubble does not travel to stars, planets, and galaxies. It takes pictures of them as it whirls around Earth at 17,500 miles an hour.
Date
07/06/2013
Source
Hubble Space Telescope, 1990-Present
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