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Pesky Glitch Forces NASA to Change the Way Hubble Works, and It's Not for the Better

Wed, 06/05/2024 - 08:00

For more than 30 years, NASA’s iconic Hubble Space Telescope has been scouring the cosmos to look for ancient galaxies and dazzling nebulae. The wear and tear of traveling through low Earth orbit is starting to show on the aging telescope, forcing it to resort to using only one of its three remaining gyroscopes to…

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Hubble Telescope Put Into Dreaded Safe Mode Due to Ongoing Glitch

Tue, 04/30/2024 - 16:22

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Update: April 30, 4:22 p.m. ET: NASA says Hubble is back online and resuming science duties, doing so on April 29. “The spacecraft is in good health and once again operating using all three of its gyros,” the space agency said.

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Glitching Hubble Puts Science Missions on Hold

Thu, 11/30/2023 - 10:55

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NASA is addressing an issue with a Hubble Space Telescope gyroscope that prompted the observatory to enter safe mode on November 23. Science operations have been suspended as a result, but the space agency doesn’t seem too worried.

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