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The orbiting Hubble Space Telescope has a 2.4-m primary, which we will assume to be diffra...

The orbiting Hubble Space Telescope has a 2.4-m primary, which we will assume to be diffraction limited. Suppose we wanted to use it to read the print on the side of a distant Russian satellite. Assuming that a resolution of 1.0 cm at the satellite will do, how far away could it be from the HST?

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