Hubble Space Telescope

Events

25 December 2021

James Webb Space Telescope
- Ariane 5
Webb is an infrared observatory built by NASA with ESA and the Canadian Space Agency. Where Hubble sees mostly visible light, Webb looks in the infrared, to see the first galaxies, look through dust, and study the atmospheres of planets around other stars.
4 videos
- Northrop Grumman
- NASA
- The Launch Pad
11 February 1997

STS-82 Hubble Servicing Mission 2
- Hubble Space Telescope, Space Shuttle
- Kenneth Bowersox, Scott Horowitz, Steven Hawley, Mark Lee, Gregory Harbaugh, Steven Smith, Joseph Tanner
1 video
- NASA Goddard
2 December 1993

Hubble Servicing Mission 1
- Space Shuttle
- Richard O. Covey, Ken Bowersox, Story Musgrave, Jeffrey A. Hoffman, Kathryn C. Thornton, Claude Nicollier, Thomas Akers
Hubble was built to be serviced by astronauts, with handrails and instruments designed to be removed and replaced.
2 videos
- NASA Goddard
- Aviation & Space
STS-109 Hubble Servicing Mission 3B
- Hubble Space Telescope, Space Shuttle
- Scott Altman, Duane Carey, John M. Grunsfeld, Nancy Currie, James H. Newman, Richard M. Linnehan, Michael J. Massimino
1 video
- NASA Goddard
Hubble Space Telescope servicing missions
- Hubble Space Telescope, Space Shuttle
1 video
- Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
Hubble Servicing Mission 4
- Hubble Space Telescope, Space Shuttle
- Crew size: 7
The mission was cancelled once before it flew. After the loss of Columbia in 2003, NASA's administrator cancelled the visit on safety grounds, and only later reinstated it.
2 videos
- Plasma Ben
- NASA Goddard
Hubble Space Telescope
- Hubble Space Telescope, Space Shuttle
Hubble is a 2.4-metre telescope in low Earth orbit, built so that astronauts could service it. NASA and ESA built it to see the universe without the blur of the atmosphere, and to settle how fast the universe was expanding.
3 videos
- DCODE by Discovery
- NASA Goddard
- Primal Space