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The HST was carried aboard the Space Shuttle and placed in orbit in April of 1990.

Four Shuttle missions visited it between 1993 and 2002 for service, upgrade,

and maintenance. A planned fifth mission was cancelled in the aftermath of the

Columbia disaster. However, after much public discussion, NASA administrator

Mike Griffin approved one final servicing mission. It was completed in 2009, and

there won't be any more.

The Hubble telescope is now expected to function until at least 2014, and

possibly 2020. Its scientific successor, the James Webb Space Telescope,

is scheduled to be launched in 2018.

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What space vehicles were used in hubble telescope mission'?

Space Shuttles Discovery and Atlantis were most often used for HST Servicing Missions, due to their larger cargo bays.


When was the final servicing of the hubble space telescope?

HST Servicing Mission 4 was carried out in 2009 aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis, during shuttle mission STS-125. Atlantis and Discovery were the most often used shuttles for HST servicing missions, due in large part to their larger cargo bays compared to the other shuttles.


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The Hubble was launched in April 1990. Since launch it's had 5 servicing missions, the last being in May 2009, which means the average time between servicings was slightly under four years. The longest time was between the fourth and fifth missions ... about seven years. The Hubble is projected to remain operational until 2014. It's unlikely that there will be another servicing mission, unless the final deorbiting is counted. This will probably happen sometime between the end of its useful life and 2025, by which time it will be in severe danger of experiencing an uncontrolled reentry. This would be bad, since the Hubble is quite large for a satellite and there's a good possibility that substantial chunks of it will survive reentry and impact the Earth's surface. A controlled deorbit will allow it to be brought down safely in the middle of the ocean as opposed to, say, over Los Angeles or Tokyo or London. The last servicing mission installed a docking ring to allow a future unmanned robotic spacecraft to dock with the Hubble and deorbit it.


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