[NASA] NASA’s Hubble Temporarily Pauses Science

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NASA’s Hubble Temporarily Pauses Science

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This image of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope was taken on May 19, 2009 after deployment during Servicing Mission 4.

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NASA’s

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entered safe mode May 24 due to an ongoing gyroscope (gyro) issue, suspending science operations. Hubble’s instruments are stable, and the telescope is in good health.

The telescope automatically entered safe mode when one of its three gyroscopes gave faulty telemetry readings. Hubble’s gyros measure the telescope’s slew rates and are part of the system that determines and controls precisely the

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. NASA will provide more information early the first week of June.

NASA anticipates Hubble will continue making discoveries throughout this decade and possibly into the next, working with other observatories, such as the agency’s

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for the benefit of humanity.

Launched in 1990, Hubble has been observing the universe for more than three decades and recently celebrated its

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. Read more about some of Hubble’s

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May 31, 2024

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