Three weeks after science activities were halted after a failure in an onboard computer, the Hubble Space Telescope remains blind over 540 miles above Earth.
Nasa engineers have been striving to establish the school bus-size flying observatory in the last decade following the school repairs.
Nasa has finally completed a test of steps to reset a payload computer that crashed on June 13 and pushed all scientific devices into a safe mode. By next week, the technique may be tested on the Telescope.
“In response to a payload computer issue, Nasa performed a test of procedures to transition to backup hardware at Hubble. After further preparation and evaluation next week, this transition might be made, “Space Team Hubble Telescope stated.
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After being initially deployed by the space shooter Discovery in 1990, the Telescope was last refurbished in 2009. The Telescope, with its more than three decades of Earth service, has experienced many faults that were separated in time to start operations. Still, for engineers to locate and deliver a patch, it takes longer than planned. The Telescope previously experienced difficulties with its 2004 power breakdown image spectrograph; then, an electric shortening in 2007 impact its Advanced Survey Camera (ACS) – the primary telescope camera.
Although engineers struggle to identify the specific hardware fault, Nasa is confident of resolving the problem and resuming science work. Nasa said in a statement that “the Telescope itself and its scientific instruments are in good condition and are presently in a secure setup.
The defective computer operates and organizes the scientific equipment on the spacecraft. After the module ceased, the laptop came to an “alive” signal indicating that everything was well. Once the issue occurred, all science equipment was configured in a safe mode on the main computer.
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The Space Telescope of Hubble is a flying observatory in space designed to look beyond vision from the Earth by Nasa and the European Space Agency. In a room, flies are a unique capacity to avoid being influenced by the dense atmosphere of this planet, which tends to distort the picture, unlike other telescope systems on Earth.
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