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Related: About this forumHubble Space Telescope Nearly Ready for Action Again
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer | October 22, 2018 06:33pm ET
It looks like NASA's famous Hubble Space Telescope has recovered from the glitch that knocked the observatory offline more than two weeks ago.
On Oct. 5, Hubble went into a protective "safe mode" after one of its orientation-maintaining gyroscopes failed. Mission team members tried to recruit a backup gyro, but that instrument refused to behave, returning anomalous readings.
However, a number of troubleshooting activities conducted over the past week appear to have brought the balky gyro to heel, NASA officials announced today (Oct. 22). The mission team just needs to run a few more tests to make sure everything's fixed. [The Hubble Space Telescope: A 25th Anniversary Photo Celebration]
"The Hubble operations team plans to execute a series of tests to evaluate the performance of the gyro under conditions similar to those encountered during routine science observations, including moving to targets, locking on to a target and performing precision pointing," NASA officials wrote in a Hubble update. "After these engineering tests have been completed, Hubble is expected to soon return to normal science operations."
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Hubble Space Telescope Nearly Ready for Action Again (Original Post)
Judi Lynn
Oct 2018
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Canoe52
(2,949 posts)1. Yeah! Love the Hubble!
Javaman
(62,534 posts)2. it always impresses the living hell out of me how the scientists are able to do this
over and over again.
like the Apollo 13 Astronauts said, "the PhD's are working hard on this".
DavidDvorkin
(19,485 posts)3. The people working hard on Apollo 13 weren't PhDs
They were engineers with bachelors and masters degrees.
SCantiGOP
(13,873 posts)4. One of America's most expensive toys
And I mean that in a supportive way.