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The Hubble Telescope was carried into orbit in April 1990. It is still in orbiting in space. In 2009 it had its final servicing and will probably last until sometime in 2014. Its successor, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), will take its' place.

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Where is Hubble Telescope located?

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What is the name of a Visual telescope satellite in space?

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How far above earth does the hubble space telescope orbit?

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Why did they build the hubble space telescope?

On our ability to view space is limited because of all the particles in our atmosphere that filter or refract light as it passes from space to us. The Hubble Space telescope was built to be an orbiting Telescope that was out of our atmosphere. It was used to probe the earliest reaches of the universe. The Hubble is roughly 370 miles from the Earth's surface. The newest space telescope created by NASA is the James Webb Space Telescope. That will be far more powerful than Hubble and will be in orbit around the sun 1 Million miles from Earth.


Is Hubble the only telescope orbiting earth?

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