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MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. – NASA's planet-hunting Kepler mission, scheduled to launch in 2009, has survived an extreme temperature test.

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The Camera That Saved Hubble

05.10.09

The story and the people behind Hubble's imaging workhorse.

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JPL's Hubble Camera Will Return to Earth

05.10.09

The Hubble Space Telescope photographed a planetary nebula to commemorate the decommissioning of a super camera.

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Hubble to Receive James Webb Space Telescope Technology

05.08.09

New technologies for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope can be used to enhance the Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) in the upcoming servicing mission.

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Refined Hubble Constant Narrows in on Dark Energy

Whatever dark energy is, explanations for it have less wiggle room following a Hubble Space Telescope observation.
NASA's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2

Throughout history, humanity has been moved by the work of the great artists of their age.
NASA's Spitzer Telescope Warms Up To New Career

The primary mission of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is about to end after more than five-and-a-half years of probing the cosmos with its keen infrared eye.
Top Five Breakthroughs From Hubble's Workhorse Camera

Here are five things you should know about JPL's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2, which is the oldest and longest working instrument aboard the Hubble Space Telescope.
Herschel and Planck Share Ride to Space

Two missions to study the cosmos are scheduled to blast into space May 14 aboard the same rocket from the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana.

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NASA's Shuttle Atlantis Launches on a Final Mission to Hubble

05.11.09 - Space shuttle Atlantis with its seven-member crew launched at 2:01 p.m. EDT Monday from NASA's Kennedy Space Center on the final Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission.
NASA Television to Provide HD Coverage of Space Shuttle Launch

05.06.09 - NASA Television will provide live high definition coverage of Monday's scheduled launch of space shuttle Atlantis on its STS-125 mission to upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope.