Hubble was built with a number of instruments onboard, including the Wide Field Planetary Camera (WFPC), the Goddard High ...

NASA estimates that the Hubble Space Telescope has about 10 years of useful life before it burns up in an uncontrolled ...

The Hubble Space Telescope is still going strong thanks ... with a flawed primary mirror, an image-blurring defect that made the scope the butt of jokes and put its entire ambitious mission ...

The world's most famous telescope ... NASA dispatched five space shuttle servicing missions to Hubble, with the last in 2009. Hubble famously launched with a flawed mirror that blurred its ...

Thirty-five years ago today a revolutionary new era of astronomy began when the Hubble Space Telescope ... to a tiny imperfection in the telescope’s mirror. Astoundingly, that mirror is still ...

April 24th, 1990: the Hubble Space Telescope ushers in a new era of space ... Hubble’s history got off to a rocky start, needing a mirror upgrade in 1993 and a few more service missions from ...

WASHINGTON — The Hubble Space Telescope ... 1990, aboard space shuttle Discovery, it quickly became apparent the telescope’s primary mirror had a flaw, resulting in blurry results, according ...

The Hubble Space Telescope is a masterwork of engineering ... of a spherical aberration on Hubble's primary mirror due to a 2-micron mistake in the curvature of the telescope's primary mirror ...

NASA astronaut Mike Massimino smiles for a photo during STS-125 — the fifth and final Hubble Space Telescope servicing ... with a flawed primary mirror, an image-blurring defect that made ...