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What was the name of the corrective optics instrument installed on Hubble during the 1993 servicing mission to fix its blurred vision?
Answer
COSTAR
COSTAR, or Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement, was installed in 1993 to counteract the spherical aberration in Hubble's main mirror, restoring sharp image quality.
💡 Did you know?
The Hubble Space Telescope launched with a flawed mirror that made it nearly useless, but a $1 billion repair mission in 1993 fixed it perfectly.
Other options people guess
- Wide Field Camera 3
- Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph
- Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer
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- space
- hubble
- nasa
- optics
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