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The Hubble Space Telescope was flown into space aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery, mission STS-31, on April 24, 1990. On the subsequent servicing mission, in December, 1993, flaws in the original optics were corrected.

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The HST was built by the United States space agency NASA, with contributions from the European Space Agency , and is operated by the Space Telescope Science Institute. Edwin Hubble was just named after the space telescope as he made the discovery of how the universe is expanding.

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I can not locate an original date, but the original launch was scheduled for October 1986. One can assume it was finished prior to that, but the disaster of the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger may have led to some redesigns.

Regardless, construction started in 1978, and the Hubble Space Telescope was launched on April 24, 1990.

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The Hubble telescope traveled to space aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery on April 24, 1990, on mission STS-31. There were four subsequent shuttle servicing missions, the last by STS-125 on May 13-19, 2009.

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Noted astronomer Edwin Hubble did not invent, design, or build, the Hubble Space Telescope. He wasn't even the first to envision a space-based orbital telescope, and he had died years before the initial planning stages of HST began in the early 60's.

It is NASA's custom to honor significant contributors to the space program, astronomy, astrophysics, and the other space sciences, by naming spacecraft (orbital satellites or deep space probes) after them.

As an example, the follow-up space telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope, was originally named the Next Generation Space Telescope (yes, there are a lot of Trekkies in NASA), at the beginning of the program. James Webb was NASA's second administrator, and led the agency through its key years during the Mercury and Gemini missions, and the early stages of the Apollo program. It was later renamed in Webb's honor.

In Hubble's case, it was his key discovery using Doppler (red shift) analysis that proved that the universe is expanding, and that galaxies other than our own Milky Way galaxy exist, that led to HST being named for him.

He didn't.

NASA built the Space Telescope, and named it in honor of Hubble long after his death. Hubble died in 1953, long before the first satellite orbited the Earth.

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Edwin Hubble didn't create the telescope. It is simply named after him, as he was a great astronomer.

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The Hubble Space Telescope was built to see more, see farther, see deeper in the universe.

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== The Hubble Space Telescope what carried into space by the Space Shuttle Discovery.

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It was built so that can see far out into space, without the interference of our atmosphere.

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How many people built Hubble space telescope?

More than 10,000 people made the Hubble Telescope. It took 20 years to make the Hubble Telescope.


What is the main advantage of the hubble space telescope?

The main advantage of the Hubble Space Telescope is in it's name. It's in space! With a ground based telescope, the light that the telescope is looking at must travel through our atmosphere where it can become distorted and manipulated. Looking through a telescope on a windy day is much worse than on a calm day for example. Also, in space there are no clouds or day time, so Hubble can be looking and doing research 24 hours every day.


What kind of telescope is the hubble space telescope?

The Hubble Space Telescope, or HST, or just the "Hubble" for most folks, is a Ritchey-Chrétien reflector telescope. It has a primary mirror to reflect and focus the incident light. A link is provided below.


What was the first machine that discovered the black hole?

I could argue that it is astronomers, not machines, who make such discoveries, but if I have to nominate a machine for the honor, it would be the Hubble Space Telescope.


If the Hubble Space Telescope works so well why not make a much bigger one and get an even better picture of the universe?

Money, it all comes down to money. The Hubble telescope is a multimillion dollar thing, i think its total cost is in the billions. So imagine what a better one would cost! Plus, the Hubble telescope has been able to do everything we needed it to. So until it can't keep up, i think we will keep good old Mr Hubble.

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When did they make the Hubble Telescope?

The Hubble Space Telescope was launched in 1990. Its optics were corrected in 1993.


How many people built Hubble space telescope?

More than 10,000 people made the Hubble Telescope. It took 20 years to make the Hubble Telescope.


How Is The Hubble Tescope Used?

The Hubble Telescope is a freely moving object sent into space by NASA to take pictures and make observations in space, especially in areas not easily accessible with telescopes. There are more than one Hubble Telescope, such as those in deep space versus ones that are fairly close.


What are the pictures that the Hubble space telescope took look like?

The best of the photos from the Hubble Space Telescope are available online at www.hubblesite.org. You can download pictures suitable for printing or pictures that make excellent computer "wallpaper" for your screen. Have a good time downloading them!


Why do they use the hubble telescope and not just a telescope?

In space there is no atmosphere and therefore, there are no perturbations of long exposures that you need to make when taking pix of very distant objects.


What is the main advantage of the hubble space telescope?

The main advantage of the Hubble Space Telescope is in it's name. It's in space! With a ground based telescope, the light that the telescope is looking at must travel through our atmosphere where it can become distorted and manipulated. Looking through a telescope on a windy day is much worse than on a calm day for example. Also, in space there are no clouds or day time, so Hubble can be looking and doing research 24 hours every day.


Who helped make the Hubble telescope?

Nasa.


What kind of telescope is the hubble space telescope?

The Hubble Space Telescope, or HST, or just the "Hubble" for most folks, is a Ritchey-Chrétien reflector telescope. It has a primary mirror to reflect and focus the incident light. A link is provided below.


How does the Hubble telescope get the energy it needs to work?

I think that that Hubble telescope uses sun's light energy which then is used to make electricity.


What advantages does the hubble space telescope have?

It does not have the interference caused by the earth's atmosphere to see through, so it can make a better quality image.


Will the Hubble Space Telescope survey all 100 billion galaxies to make a 3D map of the observable universe?

No. Such a task would be impossible.


What contributions did Edwin Hubble make?

the milky way galexy