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Subject has launch date has reference has purpose has extent has orbital period is an instance of has velocity has focal ratio has ground communication station has location has mounting manufacturer has owner has angular momentum has mirror maker have orbit decay date has acronym has temperature has primary mirror shape has elliptical orbit has mirror diameter has creator has mirror type has orbital inclination has angular resolving power has aperture has launch vehicle orbit has optical design has effective diameter has volume has momentum has attitude control has material has wavelength sensitivity has creation date has mass has operator has mount has launch location has secondary mirror shape has definition has approximately elliptical orbit

Hubble Space Telescope 1986 Hubble Space Telescope from CADC observe celestial objects optical telescope f/12.9, 30, 48, 96 Earth orbit Lockheed Space Telescope Science Institute Perkin Elmer HST concave hyperboloid 500 km altitude, 35 degree inclination equal to aperture (except for Schmidt which has aperture smaller than mirror diameter) Corning ULE glass 0.05 arcseconds 2.4 m Earth 2.1 meters 300 to 1000 nanometers 1990 3-axis-stabilized spacecraft convex hyperboloid Hubble Space Telescope. A space-based reflecting telescope with a primary mirror diameter of 2.4 m (94 in) capable of high-resolution imaging from the far ultraviolet to the near infrared. A joint NASA/ESA mission. Launched in 1990 with a planned lifetime of 15 years. Encountered reduced performance when the mirror was found to have spherical aberration. Solved by the installation of corrective optics (COSTAR) in 1994.

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Subject	has launch date	has reference	has purpose	has extent	has orbital period	is an instance of	has velocity	has focal ratio	has ground communication station	has location	has mounting manufacturer	has owner	has angular momentum	has mirror maker	have orbit decay date	has acronym	has temperature	has primary mirror shape	has elliptical orbit	has mirror diameter	has creator	has mirror type	has orbital inclination	has angular resolving power	has aperture	has launch vehicle	orbit	has optical design	has effective diameter	has volume	has momentum	has attitude control	has material	has wavelength sensitivity	has creation date	has mass	has operator	has mount	has launch location	has secondary mirror shape	has definition	has approximately elliptical orbit
Hubble Space Telescope	1986	Hubble Space Telescope from CADC	observe celestial objects			optical telescope		f/12.9, 30, 48, 96		Earth orbit	Lockheed	Space Telescope Science Institute		Perkin Elmer		HST		concave hyperboloid	500 km altitude, 35 degree inclination	equal to aperture (except for Schmidt which has aperture smaller than mirror diameter)		Corning ULE glass		0.05 arcseconds	2.4 m		Earth		2.1 meters					300 to 1000 nanometers	1990			3-axis-stabilized spacecraft		convex hyperboloid	Hubble Space Telescope. A space-based reflecting telescope with a primary mirror diameter of 2.4 m (94 in) capable of high-resolution imaging from the far ultraviolet to the near infrared. A joint NASA/ESA mission. Launched in 1990 with a planned lifetime of 15 years. Encountered reduced performance when the mirror was found to have spherical aberration. Solved by the installation of corrective optics (COSTAR) in 1994.