HST

USA


International Sat. n°:

USA satellite n°:

Hubble Space Telescope, named as the American astrophysician Edwin Powell Hubble

Launch data:

Designation: 20580 / 90037B
Launch date24 Apr 1990 - 12:33:52 UT
Launch site:MLP2, KSC LC-39B
Launch vehicle: Shuttle STS-31
Mission:Government: Astrophysics/Planetary Science
Scientific: astronomy
Intermediate LEO Earth orbit:
Perigee / Apogee 611 x 620 km
Eccentricity 6.44E-04
Inclination 28.4 deg
Period 97.01 min

10 Nov 1997 The Hubble Space Telescope hovers at the boundary of Earth and space in this picture, taken after Hubble's second servicing mission in 1997.



Specifications

Prime contractor Lockheed (spacecraft)
Perkin Elmer (mirror & telescope)
OperatorESA / NASA
Mass at launch11110 kg
Diameter 4.25 m
Height 13.1 m
Solar array 12 x 2.83 m
Stabilization 3-axis
DC power2400 W
Design lifetime10 yrs - still active

Payload

Primary mirror diameter 2.4 m
Primary mirror mass 800 kg
Frequency bands UV, visible and near IR
Resolution 0.1 arcsecs
Pointing stability 0.007 arcsecs

Wide-Field Planetary Camera, Faint Object Camera (ESA), Faint Object Spectrograph, High Resolution Spectrograph, High Speed Photometer
Data acquisition via TDRS
Telemetry: 2287.5 MHz (500 bps, 4 kbps, 32 kbps)
Command: 2106 MHz (1/0.125 kbps)
Data: 2255.5 MHz (1024 kbps)

Mission details:



STS-31 Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is grappled by RMS - Credit: NASA.


Ref: #6r, #7(JR601), #15, #225(09.05), #226 - update: 11.08.09