@jeffw to TechnologyEnglish • 5 months agoPesky Glitch Forces NASA to Change the Way Hubble Works, and It's Not for the Bettergizmodo.comexternal-linkmessage-square4arrow-up182arrow-down13
arrow-up179arrow-down1external-linkPesky Glitch Forces NASA to Change the Way Hubble Works, and It's Not for the Bettergizmodo.com@jeffw to TechnologyEnglish • 5 months agomessage-square4
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish20•5 months agoIt’s still got a lot of good science left, with a decade of orbit to figure out how to get back to it for maintenance we could keep it running.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish19•5 months ago . “One-gyro mode actually returns Hubble to consistent science operations and it allows us to keep another gyro working…for potential future use.” They even kept a backup.
It’s still got a lot of good science left, with a decade of orbit to figure out how to get back to it for maintenance we could keep it running.
They even kept a backup.