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Posted on 12/05/2023 6:48:22 AM PST by C210N
NASA has announced that its 30-year-old iconic space telescope has stopped working and paused all scientific operations following a gyro error.
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", and that the space telescope's instruments remain in good health. NASA further explained that Hubble entered into safe mode automatically when one of its three gyroscopes provided faulty readings. For those that don't know, Hubble's gyro's measure the turn rates of telescope, which is a component of the telescope knowing which direction it's pointing in.
Furthermore, NASA revealed that Hubble first entered into safe mode on November 19, but was promptly recovered by ground teams that were able to get Hubble back to an appropriate level for scientific operations. However, the following day, the gyro problem reared its head again, resulting in scientific operations being suspended again on November 21, which was followed by another recovery and then another failure on November 23.
This isn't the first time that Hubble has been brought offline, as it was only in June that the iconic space telescope was knocked offline due to a problem with its payload computer.
You are IBIN (in before it's news).
A crew dragon Hubble repair mission has been discussed. I don’t know where the plans stand currently. I think there’s thought that Hubble is basically at end-of-life now and pouring more money into it is not a good investment, but I don’t know for sure.
It went offline in 2018 also.
... or repair gyro and PM all the other gyros ($666,666,666/hr fees apply)
I know a guy.
My local astronomy club has an image from early in the Hubble days. It’s an image from an “empty” point of space in a little slice sky in Ursa Major. It is awe inspiring how full that area actually is.
Not 'one', DOZENS......................
Will SpaceX give them a ride?
If only we we had a manned vehicle — oh, call it a “space shuttle” — so that we could fly a crew up there to fix it.
Ooooopsee! Shuttle don’t go there anymore. Well, they don’t go anywhere anymore. Surely NASA has a plan. Oww owwi know. If they become more diverse and inclusive it will all work out. Flying people? Well, call Elon.
I thought SpaceX was working on something
More than likely Elon is designing (with his SpaceX team) the configuration to do that.
Looks like Easter's coming early this year. We all know that
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Because it is iconically, iconic
33 years is way past it’s initial expected service life. But it would be nice if they could get it humming again.
After 30 years with rapidly changing technology we haven't put up a replacement for Hubble?
Here's the team for the job:
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