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Correction for the amount of The Hubble Telescope

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How much is 260,000 gigabytes?
It's about two times as much as The Hubble Telescope
The amount of The Hubble Telescope is about 130,000 gigabytes.
(a.k.a. Hubble Space Telescope, a.k.a. HST) (2008 figures)
Between its launch in 1990 and 2008, the Hubble Space Telescope gathered 120,000 gigabytes of images and other data about astronomical phenomena. Last upgraded during a service mission in 1999, the onboard computer of the Hubble Telescope has just 0.002 gigabytes of operating memory (RAM) — less than most smartphones.
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