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    Hubble Space Telescope

    Apr 21, 2022 2 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: 32 years

    Orbit height: 547 kilometres (340 miles)

    Spinning high above our world in the embrace of a low-Earth orbit

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