NASA announces its iconic space telescope has stopped working (33 years, RIP. 33!)

Tweak Town ^ | 11/30/23 | Jak Connor

[skimbell]

Sheila Jackson Lee probably would send the Mars Rover over to check out Hubble.

[COBOL2Java]

Maybe someone uploaded Biden's brain to Hubble

[wildcard_redneck]

Hubble was rassist towards brown dwarfs.

[Liberty Valance]

Beware the eyes of Mars ...

[BikerJoe]

They should have bought the manufacturers long term warranty plan.
Well, there's this now (12/2):

Hubble glitch renews talk about private servicing mission

Yeah, Elon's itching for a chance to ride to the rescue.

[Jan_Sobieski]

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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"

Unfortunately, it's hard to find a decent gyro shop in space.

But no worries: Greece Will Be on the Moon By 2022, Greek Space Agency’s Chairman Confirms.

[Political Junkie Too]

Hah. Thank Barack Obama for shutting down the Shuttle program. Hubble, you may recall, was built for on-orbit servicing.

The shuttles became liberal Democrat trophies.

Except for the Atlantis at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida (from where they launched), the others went to Los Angeles, DC, and New York City all known for their great contributions to the space program < /sarc>.

The Johnson Space Center in Houston (where the missions were run) was snubbed.

-PJ

[telescope115]

It wouldn’t surprise me if CIA DID have such an instrument. I think that the focal length would have to be much shorter however, to image the Earth’s surface. Hubble’s primary mirror is at f/24. It is claimed that Hubble can’t image the Moon’s surface to show us the Apollo landing sites because the Moon is too close. That’s my understanding.

[telescope115]

The “Hubble Deep Field”…

An amazing picture.

[NorthMountain]

Here is an image of Copernicus Crater, imaged with HST:

Link HERE for an article describing how the images were captured.

Very important information from the article:

A close-up view of Copernicus' terraced walls. Hubble can resolve features as small as 280 feet across.

Lunar landers, rovers, tracks, and footprints are all much smaller than 280 feet.

[chaosagent]

Yep. It’s called the James Webb Space Telescope, launched in Dec 21.

[Vaduz]

Telescope has stopped working (33 years, RIP. 33!)

CLEAN UP IN ORBIT 5006B

[dangus]

>> Conspiracy guys say there is a second Hubble, owned by the CIA, pointed at Earth that’s used for spying. <<

Don’t look at Google maps!

[Revel]

The voyagers are still going.

[PLMerite]

"NASA has announced that its 30-year-old iconic space telescope has stopped working and paused all scientific operations following a gyro error."

Okay, who hired the cat?

[SuperLuminal]

Classic “clink bait” title?

[telescope115]

Pretty good info. Thanks for posting it. I’m wrong about the Moon being too close to focus on, but it would’ve been cool if it could’ve imaged the landing sites. LRO did that, of course.

I often get asked by people who show up for public viewing at our observatory if we can see the Apollo sites, and of course I tell them nope.

[NorthMountain]

LRO did that, of course.

And just barely ... the LRO images are convincing, or should be ... but even they are only a little better than "blobology".

[Yo-Yo]

The key word is "iconic."

Webster's definition of iconic:

2a: widely recognized and well-established
an iconic brand name
b: widely known and acknowledged especially for distinctive excellence