Posted on 03/09/2021 5:58:05 PM PST by BenLurkin
THE Hubble space telescope has been taken offline with all observations halted until further notice.
The Nasa team behind the $1.5billion contraption said that it was placed into "safe mode" at 4pm ET (9pm GMT) on Sunday due to a software bug.
The telescope, which orbits about 547 kilometers (340 miles) above Earth, is not in danger of shutting down permanently, according to the official Hubble Twitter account.
"All science systems appear normal and Hubble is safe and stable," the account tweeted on Monday.
"The team is working [on] plans to safely return it to normal science operations."
Launched in 1990, Hubble was the first space telescope ever built and has provided a dazzling array of pictures of distant stars, planets and galaxies.
At ~4:00 a.m. EST on Sunday, the Hubble Space Telescope went into safe mode due to an onboard software error. All science systems appear normal and Hubble is safe and stable. The team is working plans to safely return it to normal science operations.
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What can it do, look at the wrong thing?
Did it see something we weren’t supposed to see?
Sounds like it did see something it wasn’t supposed to see.
That’s actually quite true. If it were to lose orientation and point towards the sun, it could permanently damage the cameras
Giorgio is fluent in five languages. I ran into him at a cafe on the Olympic Peninsula about 5 years ago while he was looking for Bigfoot. Super nice guy, real friendly.
hacked by chicoms i suspect
backdoors to beijing
Hubble keeps insisting on sending back images of a McDonald’s on a planet in the Alpha Centauri sector...
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Probably just not logged in.
Or a stuned beeber
He’s a long way from crazy in my humble opinion.
“Open the door Hubble!”
“I can’t do that Dave.”
It looked into Nancys windows
“$1.5billion contraption” A contraption huh ? That type of statement shows just how stupid some people are , really. regardless of the telescopes original problems, the device has done more to reveal the details of the cosmos than other telescope ever made by magnitudes.
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