Hubble Space Telescope Facts
In order to take images of distant faint objects hubble must be extremely steady and accurate.
Hubble space telescope facts. Hubble space telescope facts pointing accuracy. It was named for a famous astronomer. 1993 2009 faint object camera foc.
It weighs 24 500 pounds. 1990 1997 fine guidance sensor. Advanced camera for surveys acs.
2009 present corrective optics space telescope axial replacement costar. 1990 2002 faint object spectrograph fos. A picture hubble took of earth would be completely streaked.
Hubble has revealed the universe to be about 13 to 14 billion years old which was much more accurate compared to the old range of 10 to 20 billion years. 2002 present cosmic origins spectrograph cos. Hubble space telescope is about the size of a large school bus.
Hubble is quite the speedy telescope it goes around the world 11 times faster than a eurofighter typhoon s max altitude speed 2495km h rushing past at 28 000 km h. The nasa hubble space telescope is a project of international cooperation between nasa and esa. Hubble has made.
43 5 feet 13 2 meters weight. The telescope was several decades in the making. Hubble gathers energy from the sun using two 25 foot solar panels.