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The Hubble Telescope
Ashley Field
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Hubble Facts• The Hubble Telescope was launched into low
Earth orbit in 1990
• Four main instruments observe in the near ultraviolet, visible, and near infrared spectra
• Named after the astronomer Edwin Hubble
• Launched by Space Shuttle Discovery
• The only telescope designed to be serviced by astronauts
• As of Hubble’s 24th anniversary in April 2014, Hubble observations have produced more than 100 terabytes of data.
• Its scientific successor, the James Webb Space
Telescope is scheduled for launch in 2018
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Communicating with Hubble
• A quartet of antennae on the telescope sends and receives information between Hubble and the Flight Operations Team at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland.
• Engineers use satellites to communicate with the telescope, giving it directions and commands
• The telescope has 2 main computers and a number of smaller systems
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Sources
• http://hubblesite.org/• http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubbl
e/story/#.VOZev1PF-Ni• http://web.archive.org/web/200805242117
36/http://hubble.nasa.gov/overview/conception-part1.php