Hubble Space Telescope Operations (315404)
Investment ID: 026-000000846
Overview
Program Title
Hubble Space Telescope Operations (315404)
Description
The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is an astronomical observatory that was launched in 1990 by the Space Shuttle and serviced five times on orbit by astronauts, last time in 2009, and operates at the forefront of astronomy as one of NASA's Great Observatories. Managed by the HST Operations Project, mission operations is performed at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland and science operations is performed at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland.
Type of Program
Major IT Investments
Multi-Agency Category
Not Applicable
Investment Detail
The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) provides a healthy Return on Investment (ROI), as demonstrated, by annual metrics including the ratio for the over-subscription rate of proposed vs accepted telescope time, production rate of scientific papers, number of citations within published papers, number of requests for science archive information, and observatory scheduling efficiency.