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English
Etymology
stubby + Hubble. From being a telescope similar to the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), with a shortened tube (ie. a stub). The HST itself is named after American astronomer Edwin Hubble.
Noun
stubby Hubble (plural stubby Hubbles)
- (US, aerospace, espionage, informal) A spy satellite with a design similar to the Hubble Space Telescope.
- (astronautics, by extension) A satellite of this class, with a shorter telescope tube than Hubble, similar mirror-size class, and wider field-of-view.
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