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11 February 1997

STS-82 Hubble Servicing Mission 2

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- STS-82: How Discovery’s Crew Gave Hubble Infrared Vision
  
  Servicing Mission 2 to the Hubble Space Telescope launched on Feb.
  
  Published 16 Feb 2021
Photo: NASA Hubble Space Telescope / Public domain (US government work)
Hubble Space Telescope

The telescope that was fixed in orbit

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The Hubble Space Telescope was launched on the shuttle Discovery on 24 April 1990 and found to have a flawed main mirror within weeks. Astronauts repaired it in orbit in 1993, and over four more servicing missions turned it into one of the most productive observatories in the history of astronomy.
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- Hubble Space Telescope: Launch, Mirror Flaw and Servicing Fixes
  
  A NASA Goddard documentary on the Hubble Space Telescope, from its shuttle launch and troubled deployment to the mirror flaw and the servicing missions that followed.
  
  Published 16 Apr 2020