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Hubble was built with a number of instruments onboard, including the Wide Field Planetary Camera (WFPC), the Goddard High ...
Space missions are all about precision and planning… or at least, they’re supposed to be. But even in the vast, high-tech ...
In the years since, Hubble has gathered more than 1.6 million observations and 430 terabytes of data. The telescope has ...
Hubble is still going strong 35 years after it was launched into space. Celebrate its anniversary with some out-of-this-world images.
STS-31 was Discovery's 10th launch, and it was the 35th space shuttle mission overall ... which had been worn by years of radiation and debris. Though smaller, Hubble's new solar arrays provided ...
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What Does the U.S. Space Force Actually Do?
On paper, the USSF is dedicated to defending U.S. interests in space. More specifically, the USSF is charged with protecting ...
The Hubble Space Telescope launched on April 24, 1990, aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-31), and deployed into Earth ...
June 1999 – The space shuttle Discovery crew, on mission STS-96 ... delivers parts to repair the ISS’s malfunctioning toilet, collects debris samples from the station’s faulty solar power ...