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- The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is a cooperative program of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to operate a long-lived space-based observatory for the benefit of the international astronomical community. HST is an observatory first dream of in the 1940s, designed and built in the 1970s and 80s, and operational only in the 1990s. Since its preliminary inception, HST was designed to be a different type of mission for NASA -- a long-term space-based observatory. To accomplish this goal and protect the spacecraft against instrument and equipment failures, NASA had always planned on regular servicing missions. Hubble has special grapple fixtures, 76 handholds, and stabilized in all three axes. HST is a 2.4-meter reflecting telescope, which was deployed, in low-Earth orbit (600 kilometers) by the crew of the space shuttle Discovery (STS-31) on 25 April 1990. Additional information available at http://www.stsci.edu/hst/HST_overview/
[Source: Space Telescope Science Institute] Group: Platform_Details Entry_ID: HST Group: Platform_Identification Platform_Category: Solar/Space Observation Satellites Short_Name: HST Long_Name: Hubble Space Telescope End_Group Group: Synonymous_Platform_Names Short_Name: Hubble Space Telescope Short_Name: 1990-037B Short_Name: Space Telescope Short_Name: 20580 End_Group Group: Orbit Orbit_Altitude: 575 km Orbit_Inclination: 28.48 degrees Period: 96.66 m Perigee: 586.47 km Apogee: 610.44 km Orbit_Type: LEO > Low Earth Orbit > Inclined Non-Polar End_Group Creation_Date: 2008-01-14 Online_Resource: http://www.stsci.edu/hst/HST_overview/ Online_Resource: http://hubble.nasa.gov/ Online_Resource: http://hubblesite.org/ Sample_Image: http://hubble.nasa.gov/art/zzcover/hubble_earth_horz.jpg Group: Platform_Logistics Launch_Date: 1990-04-25 Launch_Site: Cape Canaveral/Kennedy Space Center, USA Primary_Sponsor: NASA Primary_Sponsor: ESA End_Group End_Group
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