As you may know, the Hubble Space Telescope has been experiencing technical difficulties, and has been operating in safe mode recently. NASA is slowly bringing back modules on the telescope, such as a camera, and are hopeful full operational status can be achieved soon. Some anomalies have delayed the restart that was planned last week. Hubble was launched in 1990. Aging hardware has caused an increase in technical issues.
NASA scientists late last week were hopeful that the latest attempt to fire up the Hubble Space Telescope’s long-dormant backup computer will be successful.
An effort to start the system a week earlier was halted because of two “anomalies,” said Art Whipple, chief of NASA’s Hubble systems management office at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
Whipple said the main systems on the 18-year-old orbiting observatory were running smoothly late last Thursday, shortly after the backup computer was restarted.
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