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It moves at 5 miles a second, it’s spent 18 years in orbit, travelled 2.72 billion miles and this coming Monday; the Hubble telescope passes another landmark with its 100,000th orbit of the planet.

Preparations are well underway for the October launch of the latest and last shuttle mission to service and upgrade the telescope. The mission is also the final flight of the Atlantis orbiter and will last 11 days with five separate spacewalks to repair and upgrade the scope once it has been captured.

Image Credit: NASA/JPL & ESA.