Fine Guidance Sensor (FGS). This FGS was installed on the Hubble Space Telescope in May 2009. It is one of three FGS instruments on the telescope that

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Fine Guidance Sensor (FGS). This FGS was installed on the Hubble Space Telescope in May 2009. It is one of three FGS instruments on the telescope that are used to point and lock the telescope onto a target. They can also be used to measure stellar distances. Photographed in the Payload Hazardous Processing Facility at the Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA.

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