News Archive / Tagged: Hubble Space Telescope

• Hubble Space Telescope science instruments in safe mode

  Theresa CrossNovember 5th, 2021

  Early last week, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope instruments went into a protective “safe mode” after experiencing issues with internal communication and spacecraft syncing issues.

• Hubble switched to backup computer, science operations resume

  Cullen DesforgesJuly 19th, 2021

  NASA announced the Hubble Space Telescope has been switched to a backup payload computer successfully, allowing the telescope to resume science operations.

• NASA continues to troubleshoot Hubble payload computer issue

  Theresa CrossJune 24th, 2021

  On June 13, the Hubble Space Telescope’s payload computer stopped working. Its purpose is to maintain, control, monitor and track the science instruments.

• Hubble Space Telescope discoveries highlighted by astronomer

  Laurel KornfeldMarch 14th, 2021

  During its 31 years of activity, the Hubble Space Telescope has been "one of the most successful scientific experiments in history," used to research numerous fields of astronomy ranging from cosmology and the expansion of the universe to the characterization of exoplanets, said astronomer Tom Brown of the Space Telescope Science Institute in a March 2 online presentation.

• 30 years since the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope

  Theresa CrossApril 24th, 2020

  Thirty years ago today, the Hubble Space Telescope took to the skies aboard STS-31 and Space Shuttle Discovery.

• New Horizons team releases images of Pluto’s far side

  Laurel KornfeldOctober 30th, 2019

  More than four years after New Horizons' historic July 2015 Pluto flyby, mission scientists have released detailed images of Pluto's far side, which the spacecraft was able to image only in low resolution on approach and following departure.

• Spitzer and Hubble identify atmospheric composition of “sub-Neptune” exoplanet

  Laurel KornfeldJuly 6th, 2019

  Scientists have identified the atmospheric composition of an exoplanet larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune by studying it with both the Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes.

• Hubble Kuiper Belt survey to focus on binary systems

  Laurel KornfeldApril 8th, 2019

  The Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) is set to use the Hubble Space Telescope to conduct the largest ever survey of the Kuiper Belt.

• Collision likely factor in creation of tiny Neptunian moon

  Michael McCabeMarch 6th, 2019

  A moon orbiting Neptune that was discovered using the Hubble Space Telescope in 2013 finally has an origin theory, according to NASA.

• Hubble Space Telescope encounters another camera problem

  Derek RichardsonMarch 4th, 2019

  Just six weeks after recovering from an anomaly with one camera, an error was detected in another camera aboard NASA’s 29-year-old Hubble Space Telescope.

• Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 resumes operations

  Laurel KornfeldJanuary 17th, 2019

  The Wide Field Camera 3  (WFC3) on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has resumed science operations after spending a week and two days in a safety mode that suspended its activities.

• Hubble camera shut down following anomaly

  Jim SharkeyJanuary 10th, 2019

  Operations of Wide Field Camera 3 on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have been suspended following an anomaly, the space agency said.

• Hubble: You can’t keep a good telescope down – for long

  Jason RhianOctober 27th, 2018

  The Hubble Space Telescope is back in action.

• Chandra X-Ray Observatory back in service after anomaly

  Jason RhianOctober 25th, 2018

  With the potential loss of two of the Great Observatories, NASA and the teams working on the space-based telescopes have demonstrated their resilience in the face of adversity, bringing one back into service and closing in on doing the same for the other.

• Backup Hubble gyroscope encounters anomaly during recovery efforts

  Jason RhianOctober 23rd, 2018

  Engineers encountered a slight hiccup in bringing the Hubble Space Telescope out of safe mode and back to conducting scientific operations.