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Correction for the amount of The Hubble Telescope

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How much is 163 terabytes?
It's about one-and-three-tenths times as much as The Hubble Telescope
The amount of The Hubble Telescope is about 120 terabytes.
(a.k.a. Hubble Space Telescope, a.k.a. HST) (2008 figures)
Between its launch in 1990 and 2008, the Hubble Space Telescope gathered 120 terabytes (tB) of images and other data about astronomical phenomena. Last upgraded during a service mission in 1999, the onboard computer of the Hubble Telescope has just 0.00000190 terabytes of operating memory (RAM) — less than most smartphones.
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