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WFPC2 Installed on Hubble

United States of America · Science / Astronomy. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1993

Jeffrey Hoffman6 December 1993

Science / Astronomy

Hoffman helps replace Hubble's original planetary camera with WFPC2, whose corrective optics compensate for the primary mirror flaw.

Names involved

Jeffrey Hoffman

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