In contrast to yesterday's cheery optimism, NASA engineers say that they've encountered more trouble repairing the Hubble Space Telescope's router for scientific data.
In the final stages of a complicated operation to switch on a long-dormant backup system, NASA engineers detected two separate "anomalies" in the information the backup system was producing. Both problems are being investigated, but NASA has released little information about the severity of the issues.
Scientific operations were supposed to resume today, but now it is unclear when the Hubble will be back up and running. If the backup system can't be switched on, the Hubble could be unable to conduct most observations until a shuttle servicing mission tentatively scheduled for February.
See Also:
- Hubble in Trouble But It Could Have Been Double
- Engineers Fix Hubble's Busted Data System
- Hubble Failure Impacts People, Schedules
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