NASA’s Hubble has been experiencing a bit of unexpected downtime lately. The aging space telescope was forced to enter a default “safe mode” state when it began experiencing problems with the ...

The Hubble Space Telescope — one of NASA’s most reliable and important pieces of space hardware — has had a rough couple of weeks. Earlier this month NASA revealed that the Hubble was experiencing ...

NASA today said it would work with a team of researchers on a three-year, $1.8 project to build gyroscope systems that are more than 1,000 times as sensitive as those in use today. The Fast Light ...

"In an attempt to correct the erroneously high rates produced by the backup gyro, the Hubble operations team executed a running restart of the gyro on Oct. 16th. This procedure turned the gyro off for ...

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NASA placed its venerable Hubble Space Telescope into a “safe mode” on Friday evening because of gyroscope problems, the space agency confirmed Monday. Although science operations are expected to ...

On October 5 th, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope experienced a troublesome gyroscope malfunction. Onboard software attempted to rectify the issue by kickstarting a backup gyroscope that NASA built into ...

It was just Tuesday that news began to spread about NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope experiencing some downtime due to a gyroscope issue, and on Wednesday NASA took the time to provide a brief update on ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link The Hubble Space Telescope is famous for the stunning images it records of the universe, from distant galaxies to dark storms on Neptune and even ...

The Hubble Space Telescope is back. The iconic scope resumed normal operations Friday (Oct. 26) after a three-week hiatus caused by issues with two orientation-maintaining gyroscopes, NASA officials ...

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