Hubble is Back! Astronomers Worldwide Breathe a Sigh of Relief

[William Seger]

https://interestingengineering.com/hubble-is-back-astronomers-worldwide-breathe-a-sigh-of-relief

Hubble is finally back online after a procedure involving the swap of the telescope's payload computer seems to have fixed the issue that has kept it on safety mode for weeks, a statement by NASA explains.

On Thursday, July 15, NASA announced it had begun a "risky" switchover procedure to backup spacecraft hardware on Hubble as part of its efforts to resolve an outage that had started on June 13.

Today, July 16, the US space agency announced that the backup payload computer was turned on, "loaded with flight software and brought up to normal operations mode."

[Ferrets are Cool]

1. That is amazing and wonderful

[hlthe2b]

2. Best news today. Thanks!

[NNadir]

3. One of the world's greatest scientific instruments!

For my money this instrument is the greatest accomplishment of Nasa.

Thanks for the update.

[VWolf]

10. For me, it's a tossup

between Hubble and the Voyager 1/2 missions

[Warpy]

4. Thank goodness for redundant systems

that I'm sure somebody had to fight to include since they added weight and cost. I hope s/he is alive and issues an "I told you so."

I'm glad to see Hubble's life extended.

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

5. YES!

[Wounded Bear]

6. K & R...nt

[sarge43]

7. Can't keep a great explorer down.

"The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated," Mark Twain

[Goonch]

8. ;-{)

[calimary]

9. Good!

Now, can they do something about the decaying orbit? Or is that not an issue anymore?

[William Seger]

11. That's still an issue, and no solution without the space shuttle