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    Hubble Space Telescope

    Mar 26, 2020 3 minutes

    THE SPECS

    Launch: 24 April 1990

    Rocket: Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-31)

    Target: Low-Earth orbit

    Operators: NASA

    Estimated cost: $1.5 billion

    Time in space: 30 years

    Orbit height: 547 kilometres (340 miles)

    Spinning high above our world in the embrace of a low-Earth orbit lies Hubble, a observatory that’s served as the backbone of modern astronomy for three decades now. Its cameras have stared into the cosmos of our Solar System and beyond and have helped scientists, astronomers and academics to slowly peel back the mysteries that lie

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