Posted on 10/16/2008 7:41:38 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) – The Hubble Space Telescope was in the final stages of recovery on Thursday after NASA successfully bypassed a faulty computer and resurrected an 18-year-old spare from orbital hibernation.
The faulty computer, which is needed to collect and process data from science instruments, prompted NASA to delay a long-awaited space shuttle mission to service the telescope.
The flight has been rescheduled for February, when the crew will attempt to replace the failed computer.
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Engineers began the delicate task of switching to a backup system to collect and process Hubble's data on Wednesday.
"Everything's going perfectly," said NASA spokeswoman Susan Hendrix, with the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
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Overall, quite the success.
Man talk about a slow reboot...LOL.
Most excellent.
Hubble is turning out to be the little telescope that could! I can’t wait till we send out our next gen orbiting telescopes! Imagine what we will see!
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