Observatory · NORAD 20580

Hubble Space Telescope

Name: Hubble Space Telescope — orbital elements
Creator: Ephem
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Hubble Space Telescope. 2.4 m aperture visible/UV/NIR observatory in low Earth orbit; still operational after five servicing missions.

§1 Vitals

Operator	NASA/ESA
Launched	1990-04-24
Approx. altitude	540 km
Inclination	28.5°
NORAD catalog id	20580

§2 Live orbital elements

The current two-line element set for this object is served from Ephem's cache at:

GET · https://ephem-api.YOUR-SUBDOMAIN.workers.dev/v1/objects/20580

curl -s https://ephem-api.YOUR-SUBDOMAIN.workers.dev/v1/objects/20580 \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ek_live_..."

Cached 1 h. Backed by the CelesTrak active catalog, refreshed nightly.

§3 What Ephem does with this object

Hubble Space Telescope is included in the nightly SGP4 propagation that produces Ephem's debris density feed. Its sub-satellite point at any moment can be computed client-side from the TLE using standard SGP4 (the same code path the overhead map uses in your browser).

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