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147 answers are accepted for “Name a space telescope”. Akari is the rarest space telescope in this ranking, with 0 monthly Wikipedia views (rarity 0.997, Legendary). PRIMA ties Akari on rarity, with 0 monthly Wikipedia views. James Webb Space Telescope is the most common space telescope in this ranking, with 591,472 monthly Wikipedia views. Combined monthly Wikipedia views across the 147 answers: 2,701,859. Akari is 0.0% of that total. 30 answers are Epic or Legendary: Akari (Legendary), PRIMA (Legendary), High-Definition Space Telescope (Legendary), and 27 more.
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James Webb Space Telescope
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591,472 monthly Wikipedia views
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Rarity 0.000
Monthly English Wikipedia pageviews. Source: Wikidata + Wikipedia pageviews (2026-10).
Ranked answers 147 answers to “Name a space telescope”, rarest first. A rarity of 1 is the rarest answer in this
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Rank Answer Tier Rarity Monthly Wikipedia views 1 Akari on Wikipedia Legendary 0.997 0 2 PRIMA on Wikipedia Legendary 0.997 0 3 High-Definition Space Telescope on Wikipedia Legendary 0.986 93 4 X-ray space telescope on Wikipedia Legendary 0.979 119 5 Cosmic Infrared Background ExpeRiment on Wikipedia Legendary 0.973 224 6 Kosmos 215 on Wikipedia Legendary 0.966 298 7 Supernova/Acceleration Probe on Wikipedia Legendary 0.959 316 8 SWAP on Wikipedia Legendary 0.952 318 9 UniBRITE-1 on Wikipedia Legendary 0.945 320 10 HIBARI on Wikipedia Legendary 0.938 377 11 Stars-AO on Wikipedia Legendary 0.932 384 12 Max Valier on Wikipedia Epic 0.925 424 13 Space Solar Telescope on Wikipedia Epic 0.918 541 14 Advanced Technology Large-Aperture Space Telescope on Wikipedia Epic 0.911 565 15 STSat-1 on Wikipedia Epic 0.904 586 16 Eddington on Wikipedia Epic 0.897 615 17 TD-1A on Wikipedia Epic 0.890 655 18 TUGSAT-1 on Wikipedia Epic 0.884 718 19 Gravity and Extreme Magnetism Small Explorer on Wikipedia Epic 0.877 729 20 XEUS on Wikipedia Epic 0.870 735 21 Heweliusz on Wikipedia Epic 0.863 737 22 LOFT on Wikipedia Epic 0.856 745 23 Array of Low Energy X-ray Imaging Sensors on Wikipedia Epic 0.849 755 24 ABRIXAS on Wikipedia Epic 0.842 763 25 EChO on Wikipedia Epic 0.836 789 26 Ginga on Wikipedia Epic 0.829 832 27 Hinotori on Wikipedia Epic 0.822 845 28 Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope on Wikipedia Epic 0.815 848 29 Lem on Wikipedia Epic 0.808 859 30 Small Astronomy Satellite 3 on Wikipedia Epic 0.801 868 31 High Energy Astronomy Observatory 1 on Wikipedia Rare 0.795 979 32 CHIPS on Wikipedia Rare 0.788 990 33 Hisaki on Wikipedia Rare 0.781 1,052 34 High Energy Astronomy Observatory 3 on Wikipedia Rare 0.774 1,070 35 Hakucho on Wikipedia Rare 0.767 1,073 36 TSUBAME on Wikipedia Rare 0.760 1,100 37 Mikhailo Lomonosov on Wikipedia Rare 0.753 1,139 38 Solar Anomalous and Magnetospheric Particle Explorer on Wikipedia Rare 0.747 1,167 39 Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite on Wikipedia Rare 0.740 1,169 40 Calorimetric Electron Telescope on Wikipedia Rare 0.733 1,198 41 Small Astronomy Satellite 2 on Wikipedia Rare 0.726 1,219 42 EXOSAT on Wikipedia Rare 0.719 1,262 43 Gamma on Wikipedia Rare 0.712 1,294 44 Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 3 on Wikipedia Rare 0.705 1,355 45 Astronomical Netherlands Satellite on Wikipedia Rare 0.699 1,364 46 Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment on Wikipedia Rare 0.692 1,366 47 AGILE on Wikipedia Rare 0.685 1,501 48 Cos-B on Wikipedia Rare 0.678 1,517 49 MOST on Wikipedia Rare 0.671 1,530 50 Galileo Solar Space Telescope on Wikipedia Rare 0.664 1,584 51 Tenma on Wikipedia Rare 0.658 1,642 52 Liquid-mirror space telescope on Wikipedia Rare 0.651 1,646 53 Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope on Wikipedia Rare 0.644 1,690 54 Yohkoh on Wikipedia Rare 0.637 1,748 55 Near Earth Object Surveillance Satellite on Wikipedia Rare 0.630 1,868 56 BeppoSAX on Wikipedia Rare 0.623 1,948 57 Wide Field Infrared Explorer on Wikipedia Rare 0.616 1,991 58 ASTERIA on Wikipedia Rare 0.610 2,003 59 SPICA on Wikipedia Rare 0.603 2,021 60 Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.596 2,025 61 Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.589 2,056 62 HALCA on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.582 2,113 63 Explorer 11 on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.575 2,159 64 Whipple on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.568 2,164 65 Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.562 2,172 66 Midcourse Space Experiment on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.555 2,212 67 TianQin on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.548 2,355 68 SPARCS on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.541 2,386 69 Spektr-UV on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.534 2,428 70 European Retrievable Carrier on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.527 2,621 71 THESEUS on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.521 2,726 72 Dark Matter Particle Explorer on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.514 2,729 73 Suzaku on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.507 2,795 74 Sentinel Space Telescope on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.500 2,801 75 Koronas-Foton on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.493 2,834 76 BlackCAT on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.486 2,942 77 Odin on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.479 2,952 78 TRACE on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.473 2,974 79 AstroSat-2 on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.466 3,010 80 Infrared Space Observatory on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.459 3,314 81 Astron on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.452 3,324 82 Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.445 3,401 83 Einstein Observatory on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.438 3,408 84 Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.432 3,409 85 Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.425 3,460 86 Granat on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.418 3,710 87 Space Interferometry Mission on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.411 3,806 88 International Ultraviolet Explorer on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.404 3,961 89 Origins Space Telescope on Wikipedia Familiar 0.397 4,248 90 ROSAT on Wikipedia Familiar 0.390 4,259 91 XPoSat on Wikipedia Familiar 0.384 4,301 92 UVEX on Wikipedia Familiar 0.377 4,645 93 Hinode on Wikipedia Familiar 0.370 4,694 94 Einstein Probe on Wikipedia Familiar 0.363 4,942 95 Orbiting Astronomical Observatory on Wikipedia Familiar 0.356 4,998 96 IXPE on Wikipedia Familiar 0.349 5,117 97 Uhuru on Wikipedia Familiar 0.342 5,160 98 Kvant-1 on Wikipedia Familiar 0.336 5,512 99 Space Variable Objects Monitor on Wikipedia Familiar 0.329 5,800 100 Spektr-RG on Wikipedia Familiar 0.322 5,857 101 Spektr-R on Wikipedia Familiar 0.315 5,896 102 GALEX on Wikipedia Familiar 0.308 6,260 103 LiteBIRD on Wikipedia Familiar 0.301 6,353 104 Apollo Telescope Mount on Wikipedia Familiar 0.295 6,369 105 Solar Maximum Mission on Wikipedia Familiar 0.288 6,445 106 Habitable Exoplanets Observatory on Wikipedia Familiar 0.281 6,453 107 Compton Spectrometer and Imager on Wikipedia Familiar 0.274 6,643 108 AstroSat on Wikipedia Familiar 0.267 7,100 109 INTEGRAL on Wikipedia Familiar 0.260 7,663 110 IRAS on Wikipedia Familiar 0.253 7,917 111 NuSTAR on Wikipedia Familiar 0.247 8,139 112 Digitized Sky Survey on Wikipedia Familiar 0.240 8,143 113 Advanced Composition Explorer on Wikipedia Familiar 0.233 8,364 114 CoRoT on Wikipedia Familiar 0.226 8,622 115 CHEOPS on Wikipedia Familiar 0.219 9,887 116 Terrestrial Planet Finder on Wikipedia Familiar 0.212 10,375 117 NEO Surveyor on Wikipedia Familiar 0.205 11,172 118 Orbiting Solar Observatory on Wikipedia Common 0.199 11,256 119 Euclid on Wikipedia Common 0.192 11,294 120 Pandora on Wikipedia Common 0.185 12,050 121 ARIEL on Wikipedia Common 0.178 12,826 122 Advanced Telescope for High Energy Astrophysics on Wikipedia Common 0.171 12,941 123 SPHEREx on Wikipedia Common 0.164 14,084 124 Cosmic Background Explorer on Wikipedia Common 0.158 14,727 125 Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite on Wikipedia Common 0.151 15,378 126 Herschel Space Observatory on Wikipedia Common 0.144 15,753 127 Compton Gamma Ray Observatory on Wikipedia Common 0.137 17,895 128 Hipparcos on Wikipedia Common 0.130 19,824 129 Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe on Wikipedia Common 0.123 19,999 130 Solar gravitational lens on Wikipedia Common 0.116 20,025 131 XMM-Newton on Wikipedia Common 0.110 21,705 132 Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer on Wikipedia Common 0.103 21,724 133 PLATO on Wikipedia Common 0.096 24,695 134 Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope on Wikipedia Common 0.089 25,023 135 Solar and Heliospheric Observatory on Wikipedia Common 0.082 25,192 136 Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite on Wikipedia Common 0.075 34,672 137 Xuntian on Wikipedia Common 0.068 35,560 138 Planck on Wikipedia Common 0.062 36,265 139 Spitzer Space Telescope on Wikipedia Common 0.055 40,860 140 Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory on Wikipedia Common 0.048 51,171 141 Habitable Worlds Observatory on Wikipedia Common 0.041 51,587 142 Gaia on Wikipedia Common 0.034 58,942 143 Kepler space telescope on Wikipedia Common 0.027 66,515 144 Chandra X-ray Observatory on Wikipedia Common 0.021 74,402 145 Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope on Wikipedia Common 0.014 505,372 146 Hubble Space Telescope on Wikipedia Common 0.007 507,525 147 James Webb Space Telescope on Wikipedia Common 0.000 591,472
FAQ What is the rarest space telescope? Akari is the rarest space telescope in this ranking, with 0 monthly Wikipedia views (rarity 0.997, Legendary).
How many space telescopes are there? There are 147 space telescopes in this ranking, from Akari (rarest) to James Webb Space Telescope (most common).
What is the most common space telescope? James Webb Space Telescope is the most common space telescope in this ranking, with 591,472 monthly Wikipedia views (Common).
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Sources Recorded source: Wikidata + Wikipedia pageviews (2026-10). The answer list is compiled from Wikidata (CC0), and the view counts are monthly English Wikipedia pageviews. Rarity is the percentile of the popularity figure inside this prompt: 1 is the rarest and 0 is the most common. Linked names open the English Wikipedia article stored on that answer.