stubby Hubble

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stubby Hubbles 复数

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A spy satellite with a design similar to the Hubble Space Telescope.

    美国 非正式 航空 商务 工程 政治 军事
  2. 2.

    A satellite of this class, with a shorter telescope tube than Hubble, similar mirror-size class, and wider field-of-view.

    航空 商务 工程 引申义

词源

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.

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