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Hubble Space Telescope

(HST, Space Telescope)
(observatory-satellite with 2.4 meter reflective telescope)

The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is a NASA 2.4 meter reflector telescope in space. Instruments:

The PCS ("Pointing Control System") is made up of instruments of the following types:

The optical telescope assembly (OTS) is basically the telescope itself up to the instruments, including the mirrors, baffles and optical shields, locations for instruments, and the frame supporting these in place.

HST was launched in 1990, serviced and upgraded by astronauts (replacing instruments) a number of times, the final occasion in 2009. It remains in operation in 2024 with hopes of continuing for a decade or more. Initial instruments:

As launched, the optics were flawed and a system to compensate called COSTAR (Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement) was developed and installed in 1993. COSTAR required an instrument bay and HSP was removed to provide that space. Each of HST's current instruments has a correcting mechanism built in and COSTAR was removed in 2009.


(telescope,reflector,spacecraft,NASA,visible light,infrared)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Space_Telescope
http://www.stsci.edu/hst
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/main/index.html
https://hubblesite.org/
https://www.spacetelescope.org/
http://www.astro.sunysb.edu/fwalter/AST443/pdf/UVIR.pptx.pdf
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1985JRASC..79..134V/abstract
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115nm2.7PHz11eVbeginHubble Space Telescope
1700nm176THz729meVendHubble Space Telescope
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Referenced by pages:
3D-HST
AEGIS
angular resolution
Comet Galaxy (PGC 3234374)
Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey (CANDELS)
Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS)
Cosmic Lens All-sky Survey (CLASS)
DEVILS
diffraction spike
Digitized Sky Survey (DSS)
Extended Groth Strip (EGS)
F4
Faint Infrared Grism Survey (FIGS)
field of view (FOV)
filter designator
GaiaHub
Galaxy Evolution from Morphology and Spectral energy distributions (GEMS)
GOALS
Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
GOODS
GOODS NICMOS Survey (GNS)
grism
Groth Strip
guide star (GS)
Guide Star Catalog (GSC)
Hill radius
HRS
Hubble Deep Field (HDF)
Hubble Deep Field South (HDF-S)
Hubble Ultra-Deep Field (HUDF)
imaging spectrometer
legacy survey
low Earth orbit (LEO)
M87
magnitude
MAST
Medium Deep Survey (MDS)
MIGHTEE
monolithic mirror
moon
MOST
MUSCLES
Neptune
NIRCam
occulting bar
Orion Disks
PanCET
parallax
PHANGS
PHAT
protoplanetary disk (PPD)
rare designator prefixes
reflector telescope
Ritchey-Chrétien telescope (RCT)
Roman Space Telescope (RST)
Sagittarius Window Eclipsing Extrasolar Planet Search (SWEEPS)
SH0ES
Southern Sky Redshift Survey (SSRS)
Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)
spectral resolution
SPICA
STARSMOG
Subaru PFS
Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF)
three-mirror anastigmat
tip of the red-giant branch (TRGB)
Ultimate Spitzer Phase Curve Survey (USPCS)
ultraviolet (UV)
ultraviolet astronomy
Ultraviolet Hubble Ultra-deep Field (UVUDF)
UVCANDELS
WFC3

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