Hubble Space Telescope Launched During Sts-31 2021. The Hubble Space Telescopes deployment also dwarfed literally and figuratively everything else that was on board Discovery for the STS-31 mission. 29 2014 photo made available by NASA James Webb Space Telescope Optical Engineer Larkin Carey examines two test mirror.
Its successor the James Webb Space Telescope JWST is scheduled to be launched in March 2021. 9 of 23 10 of 23 This photo provided by NASA the James Webb Space Telescope is separated in space on Saturday Dec. NASAs James Webb Space Telescope soared from French Guiana on South.
Hubble launches James Webb the largest space telescope ever.
The 31-year-old Hubble increasingly creaky but still churning out celestial glamour shots focuses on visible and ultraviolet light with just a smattering of infrared light. NASAs space shuttle Discovery on mission STS-31 took off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a journey that included five astronauts and the Hubble Space Telescope among other things. When was the Hubble telescope built and launched. After a few years of problems and issues notably the flawed mirror Hubble started.