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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I don’t want to say it was aliens but. 😏
It gets updates fairly often.
Well why not? You admittedly get your information from alien enthusiasts and you have personally been pushing the QFS story.
That’s like “Beethoven’s 9th Racket.”
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