Sky-high tech Nasa engineers try to reboot Hubble telescope

[Juha-Matti Laurio <juha-matti.laurio () netti fi>]

This type of remote control we don't see every day:

Nasa engineers will try today to reboot the $2bn (£1.1bn) Hubble Space Telescope, which has been out of commission for 
a fortnight after a computer failure.
The monitoring staff will attempt to send commands to the craft, orbiting 300 miles above the Earth,
to switch on a back-up computer which has not been activated since the telescope was launched more than 18 years ago.

The breakdown has occurred in a computer needed to store and relay science data back to Nasa and has already caused the 
postponement of a mission by the space shuttle,
which was to have been launched yesterday, to service and upgrade the telescope and its equipment.
That flight has been rescheduled for next February when repairs should extend the telescope's active life by four 
years; it will then be replaced by the James Webb space telescope."
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More at
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/oct/15/spacetechnology-nasa

Juha-Matti

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