Posted on 12/05/2023 6:48:22 AM PST by C210N
NASA has announced that its 30-year-old iconic space telescope has stopped working and paused all scientific operations following a gyro error.
The space agency explained via its blogpost that the Hubble Space Telescope entered safe mode on November 23 due to an "ongoing gyroscope (gyro) issue", and that the space telescope's instruments remain in good health. NASA further explained that Hubble entered into safe mode automatically when one of its three gyroscopes provided faulty readings. For those that don't know, Hubble's gyro's measure the turn rates of telescope, which is a component of the telescope knowing which direction it's pointing in.
Furthermore, NASA revealed that Hubble first entered into safe mode on November 19, but was promptly recovered by ground teams that were able to get Hubble back to an appropriate level for scientific operations. However, the following day, the gyro problem reared its head again, resulting in scientific operations being suspended again on November 21, which was followed by another recovery and then another failure on November 23.
This isn't the first time that Hubble has been brought offline, as it was only in June that the iconic space telescope was knocked offline due to a problem with its payload computer.
Why can’t the word Hubble be in the title ??
Can’t they send someone out with a tool box and a laptop to straighten things out?
They should have bought the manufacturers long term warranty plan.
Awwww. That makes me sad.
Good question.
Reminds them of Web?
Well, there's this now (12/2):
What other 'iconic' space telescope do you know of?
Ah, yep. Makes me want to just run out to the store, and buy a get-well card, and send it to nasa.
How many ‘iconic space telescopes’ does NASA have?..................
Not A Space Agency.
Will this impact the NASA muslim outreach program started by 0bama?
i know of
gap, gile, legri, integral, nustar....etc
but average people should know at least two jwst and hubbel
The female astronauts lost the tools.
Beautiful illustration of a “point spread function”.
Hah. Thank Barack Obama for shutting down the Shuttle program. Hubble, you may recall, was built for on-orbit servicing.
Which leads me to ask: Can Falcon-9/Crew Dragon reach Hubble's orbit? If so, would it be feasible to carry out a repair mission using the Dragon spacecraft? A complicated EVA from Dragon would certainly be more challenging than a complicated EVA from STS.
At least three.
Hubble
https://science.nasa.gov/mission/hubble
Solar Dynamics Observatory
https://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/
Conspiracy guys say there is a second Hubble, owned by the CIA, pointed at Earth that’s used for spying.
Well, they keep dropping the tool boxes on space walks.
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