Source: Goddard Space Flight Center
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The Hubble Space Telescope will be operated in orbit from the
Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., in support of
astronomers working at the Goddard-managed Space Telescope Science
Institute in nearby Baltimore, Md. Operation commands to the
telescope and data returning from the telescope will be relayed
via the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) System and its
companion ground station at White Sands, N.M. From White Sands,
imagery and other science data from the telescope's instruments
are transmitted via a domestic satellite to Goddard and then
forwarded to the Space Telescope Science Institute for
analysis.