List of Orbiting Telescopes – Visible
Name | Agency | Launched | Terminated | Orbit |
Astrosat | ISRO | Apr-09 | — | Earth orbit (650 km) |
COROT | CNES & ESA | 27-Dec-06 | — | Earth orbit (872–884 km) |
Dark Energy Space Telescope | NASA & DOE | TBA | — | — |
Gaia mission | ESA | 2011 | — | |
Hipparcos | ESA | 8-Aug-89 | Mar-93 | Earth orbit (223–35,632 km) |
Hubble Space Telescope | NASA | 24-Apr-90 | — | Earth orbit (586.47–610.44 km) |
Kepler Mission | NASA | 6-Mar-09 | — | |
MOST | CSA | 30-Jun-03 | — | Earth orbit (819–832 km) |
SIM Lite Astrometric Observatory | NASA | 2015 | — | — |
Swift Gamma Ray Burst Explorer | NASA | 20-Nov-04 | — | Earth orbit (585–604 km) |
Terrestrial Planet Finder | NASA | TBA | — | — |
Completely and Utterly taken from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_space_telescopes
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