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Conditions appear favorable for Atlantis to begin its mission to repair and upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope today — a journey that is expected to include several measures to ensure that the space shuttle avoids any collision with dangerous space debris.
Russia has launched a Progress M-02M cargo spacecraft from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan on a resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS), a spokesman for Russia's space agency Roscosmos has said.
The telescopes will be hurled into space atop an Ariane 5 launcher from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana on Thursday.