It weighs twelve and a half tonnes, flies at nearly thirty thousand kilometres per hour and it's ten years old this Monday. The Hubble Space Telescope, arguably NASA's most successful mission ever, blasted off on 24 April 1990 and with it a new era in astronomy, explains Jeremy Thomson.
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Thomson, J. Happy Birthday, Hubble. Nature (2000). https://doi.org/10.1038/news000427-2
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