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Nearly all deployment actions are commanded by the Space Telescope Science Institute in , except for two early automatic steps, solar panel unfolding and communication antenna deployment.

For example, the closest galaxy to ours is the which is 25,000 light-years away, so its light takes 25,000 years to reach Earth.

These technologies were deemed sufficiently mature to retire significant risks in the project.

China intends to include a space telescope as one of the components of their space station, an eyepiece that is supposed to be many times better than the venerable old Hubble Space Telescope.