Predicting Hubble’s descent to Earth The Hubble Space Telescope was lifted to a higher orbit several times by Space Shuttle missions between 1993 and 2009.
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Chris Young,
Interesting Engineering,
13 Jan. 2026
The exercises mimicked the demands of difficult backcountry missions.
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