The two men aboard the international space station pulled off a riskier than usual spacewalk and successfully plugged in a new circuit breaker, drawing cheers and sighs of relief. As soon as American ...

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For the second time in just under a year, a circuit breaker failed on the international space station Wednesday, shutting down one of the gyroscopes needed to keep the orbiting outpost steady and ...

The aging telescope will now resort to using one gyroscope, which will add extra time when locking onto new targets. Reading time 2 minutes For more than 30 years, NASA’s iconic Hubble Space Telescope ...

Chandra is working again after NASA engineers implemented a fix for its gyroscope issues. NASA can again scan the sky for X-rays. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new ...

Hubble entered safe mode on April 23, but NASA reports the telescope is still in "good health." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

Researchers have taken an important new step in advancing the performance of resonator fiber optic gyroscopes, a type of fiber optic sensor that senses rotation using only light. Because gyroscopes ...

I am baffled by gyroscopes. I remember from physics in college they had the bike tire hung by its axle from a rope somehow. They would spin the tire and it would orbit the rope standing upright. If ...

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