Wide Field Camera 3

The Wide Field Camera 3 being prepared for its launch aboard STS-125

The Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) is the Hubble Space Telescope's last and most technologically advanced instrument to take images in the visible spectrum. It was installed as a replacement for the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 during the first spacewalk of Space Shuttle mission STS-125 (Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission 4) on May 14, 2009.[1]

As of April 2023, WFC3 was still operating.

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