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 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 ...

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 ...

Now the most well-recognized and scientifically productive astronomical observatory in history, the Hubble Space Telescope ... primary mirror. Fortunately, the telescope was designed to be ...

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 ...

Launching on 24 April 1990, the Hubble ... of space. When it was first launched, Hubble had a tricky start, only sending back blurry images because of a fault with the telescope's mirror.

The Hubble Space Telescope’s mission An iconic household name, the Hubble Space Telescope serves as an observatory in space, capturing images of the universe and observing in visible ...

From breathtaking snapshots of distant galaxies to game-changing discoveries about the universe’s expansion, the Hubble Space Telescope ... be because the telescope’s mirror had been ground ...