Archives for 29 September 2008
Hubble Suffers Critical Failure
Published on 29 Sep 2008 at 2:59 pm.
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The aging Hubble Space Telescope has suffered one of its worst failures since launch. This weekend, the Science Data Formatter suffered an irrecoverable failure on one side. It cannot be fixed by uploading new software. It is dead. It must be replaced. This effectively makes the Hubble useless unless some […]
