NASA decided in June 2024 not to pursue a private servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope, concluding potential risks outweighed the benefits.
Building 29 at Goddard is the same facility used for assembly of elements of the Hubble Space Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope.
NASA delayed a decision on proposed cuts to Chandra and smaller cuts to the Hubble Space Telescope until after Congress completes its fiscal year 2025 appropriations bills.
NASA has deferred plans to reduce operations of the Chandra X-Ray Observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope until after the agency receives its final appropriations for fiscal year 2025.
The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) was launched by NASA in April 1990.
NASA announced a review in March 2024 to find ways to reduce the costs of operating both the Chandra X-Ray Observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope.
NASA will transition the Hubble Space Telescope to operate using only one of its three remaining gyros.
Gyro 3 on the Hubble Space Telescope has been malfunctioning and has resulted in the telescope going into safe mode multiple times.
The 2024-05-01 letter stated that increased 2024-10-01 funding would support existing NASA missions, including the Chandra X-Ray Observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope, which faced cuts in the 2025 request.
In the 2022 senior review of astrophysics missions, NASA exempted the Chandra X-Ray Observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope from the usual operational review.
The fiscal year 2025 budget proposal reduces the Hubble Space Telescope operating budget from $98,300,000 in the final fiscal year 2024 spending bill to $88,900,000.
NASA’s fiscal year 2025 budget proposal released 2024-03-11 proposes reducing the operating budgets of the Hubble Space Telescope and the Chandra X-Ray Observatory.
The Hubble Space Telescope image from 2022-10-08 shows debris from Dimorphos 285 hours after DART’s intentional impact on 2022-09-26.
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of IRAS 16562-3959 using its Wide Field Camera 3.
The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image featuring the spiral galaxy Markarian 1337, which is roughly 120 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo.
Mike Massimino flew to space twice to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.
The Hubble Space Telescope was launched in 1990.
Low-Earth orbit (LEO) hosts the Hubble Space Telescope, the Copernicus Sentinel Earth observation satellites, and the International Space Station.
NASA issued a request for information in December 2022 seeking industry concepts for how to raise the orbit of the Hubble Space Telescope.
Astroscale and Momentus proposed working together to attach a vehicle to the Hubble Space Telescope and raise its orbit.