What does COSTAR stand for?

Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement

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The Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement, or COSTAR for short, was part of an emergency Hubble repair in 1993 after scientists discovered the telescope's primary mirror was flawed, making images blurry.

Big Hubble instruments now Smithsonian artifacts

Astronauts on the long ago mission equipped the observatory with the Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement, an instrument that overcame an optical flaw in the telescope's light gathering mirror.

Astronauts to make fourth walk to repair Hubble

Astronauts to take fourth walk to repair Hubble

This box of mirrors -- caleed COSTAR, for Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement -- should correct the optical distortion afflicting three of the telescope's scientific instruments: its faint-object spectograph, hig-resolution spectograph and faint-object camera.

Uncertainties surface over Hubble 'fix.' (space telescope)