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Mission
Astrophysics · LEO
STS-125, or HST-SM4 (Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission 4), was the fifth and final space shuttle mission to the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). Space Shuttle Atlantis carried two new instruments to the Hubble Space Telescope, the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph and the Wide Field Camera 3. The…
What it put in orbit
| Object | Type | Orbit | Globe |
|---|---|---|---|
| STS 125 2009-025A | Payload | re-entered 2009-05-24 |
COSPAR ID 2009-025 (data from GCAT, J. McDowell, CC BY 4.0). Orbits from the CelesTrak satellite catalogue (perigee × apogee, inclination).