Hubble deployed from the Space Shuttle
Date as reported
The Hubble Space Telescope was deployed from the Space Shuttle Discovery on April 25, 1990, one day after the STS-31 launch. Operating above most of Earth’s atmosphere, the observatory was designed to make ultraviolet, visible-light and near-infrared observations. An error in its primary mirror initially limited image quality; the first servicing mission in 1993 installed corrective optics. Subsequent servicing missions upgraded its instruments and extended its scientific capabilities.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Space_Telescope. Related NASA reference: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/hubble/.
- Type
- mission operations
- Category
- mission operations
- Mission
- Hubble
- Organization
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Participants
- European Space Agency
- Country
- US
Sources and attribution
- NASA — 60 moments in NASA history (opens in a new tab) — Factual summary; source attribution retained.
- Wikipedia — Hubble Space Telescope (opens in a new tab) — Factual synthesis based on the cited Wikipedia and NASA pages; original editorial wording. (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Timeline of Space Exploration Missions 1957 to 2031 (opens in a new tab)
- NASA — Hubble Space Telescope (opens in a new tab)
- NASA NSSDCA — Hubble Space Telescope (opens in a new tab)