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What year was the hubble telescope invented?
The Hubble Telescope was sent into space in 1990. It was designed and built for several years before that. As of 2014, it is still in operation.
What is the name of the telescope that was sent out in space so it could see sharper and clearer images of planets star and deep space?
The telescope sent into space to capture sharper and clearer images of planets, stars, and deep space is called the Hubble Space Telescope.
What year was a hubble space telescope sent into space?
There is only one single Hubble Space Telescope. It was placed into Earth orbit in April of 1990, and is expected to remain useful and productive until sometime between 2014 and 2020.
Who sent the Hubble space telescope into space?
NASA sent the Hubble to low earth orbit (320 miles), the crew that sent it there was Commander Loren J. Shriver, Pilot Charles F. Bolden, Jr., Mission SpecialistsSteven A. Hawley, Bruce McCandless II and Kathryn D. Sullivan on the STS-31 mission.
Are there telescopes in space besides Chandra and Hubble?
Yes there are there are many different ones, but here's just a few Herschell, planck, and Kelpler. They were recently sent and have a specific mission.
What is the name of a famous refracting telescope?
NASA's most famous telescope is probably the Hubble Telescope that orbits the earth.
How do they send Hubble into space?
The HST (Hubble Space Telescope) was sent aloft only once, on board the Space Shuttle Discovery. It was launched April 25, 1990, from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral. http://archive.eso.org/~amicol/HST/launch_orbit_new.html Subsequent servicing missions were performed by other shuttle launches.
How many space probes have you sent to Jupiter?
They have sent 6 space prbes to Jupiter.
What are some of the satellite names that have been sent into space?
the 2 most famous would be sputnik and hubble telescope, then you have telecomunications satellites, tv etc etc
What space crafts have NASA sent into space?
Some of the spacecrafts that NASA has sent into space include the Voyager probes, the Mars rovers (such as Curiosity and Perseverance), the Hubble Space Telescope, the Cassini spacecraft that studied Saturn, and the New Horizons probe that explored Pluto.
Have many Space Probes have been sent to Pluto?
One space probe has been sent to Pluto: NASA's New Horizons spacecraft. It performed a flyby of Pluto in July 2015, providing the first close-up images and scientific data of the dwarf planet and its moons.
Why was the hubble space telescope sent to space?
The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) was launched into space to allow it to view the heavens without the distortion of images caused by looking through the atmosphere itself, the degradation of images caused by the dust in the atmosphere, and the interference caused by ambient light on the surface of the earth. All those problems can be partially overcome by a careful selection of a location for a telescope on earth, but putting the telescope in space completely eliminates all of them, except space dust.The improvement of the image quality allowed astronomers to look at small objects relatively close to Hubble, or huge objects much farther away.For example Hubble was used to study the dwarf planets in our solar system Pluto and Eris.Hubble was also used to study galaxies BILLIONS of light years away. A light year is a measure of distance. It is the distance light travels in one year. Light travels 5,860,000,000,000 miles in one year, so Hubble can see galaxy sized objects billions of times a light year away.The distance, however, is not the important part of that statement. The important part of the statement "billions of light years away" is "billions of years". Because Hubble can see so far it is, in fact, showing something NOW that happened billions of years ago. That is because the light had to travel for billions of years to reach Hubble. It is allowing astronomers and scientists to observe the universe as it was billions of years ago. This is producing a multitude of theories and scientific papers.that pretty much covered everything i said except that hubble was last luanched to get to the begginning of time, it's a big gamble for sientists...i don't even have to write more now :P
