Hubble Shut Down - How Can it be Repaired? - The Cosmic Companion June 18, 2021
A computer glitch shut down the Hubble Space Telescope this week. We talk with the team at NASA and GSFC about how they are fixing the problem.
Hubble shut down on June 13, following the failure of critical electronics. How can the world’s most popular space telescope be repaired? Here’s how.
The Hubble Space Telescope, launched more than 30 years ago, has halted operations, following the failure of a payload computer critical to the operation of the spaceborne observatory.
At around 4pm EDT on June 13, the payload computer on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) experienced a failure, leading to a shutdown of the world’s best-known spaceborne observatory.
Initial analysis suggests a degrading memory module within the payload computer may have triggered the shutdown of the Hubble Space Telescope.
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