News Archive / Tagged: Hubble Space Telescope
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SpaceX, NASA looking at potential to reboost Hubble telescope
Derek RichardsonSeptember 29th, 2022NASA has signed a contract with SpaceX to study the possibility of reboosting the Hubble Space Telescope into a higher orbit using Crew Dragon.
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Hubble Space Telescope science instruments in safe mode
Theresa CrossNovember 5th, 2021Early last week, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope instruments went into a protective “safe mode” after experiencing issues with internal communication and spacecraft syncing issues.
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Hubble switched to backup computer, science operations resume
Cullen DesforgesJuly 19th, 2021NASA announced the Hubble Space Telescope has been switched to a backup payload computer successfully, allowing the telescope to resume science operations.
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NASA continues to troubleshoot Hubble payload computer issue
Theresa CrossJune 24th, 2021On June 13, the Hubble Space Telescope’s payload computer stopped working. Its purpose is to maintain, control, monitor and track the science instruments.
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Hubble Space Telescope discoveries highlighted by astronomer
Laurel KornfeldMarch 14th, 2021During 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.
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30 years since the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope
Theresa CrossApril 24th, 2020Thirty years ago today, the Hubble Space Telescope took to the skies aboard STS-31 and Space Shuttle Discovery.
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New Horizons team releases images of Pluto’s far side
Laurel KornfeldOctober 30th, 2019More 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.
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Spitzer and Hubble identify atmospheric composition of “sub-Neptune” exoplanet
Laurel KornfeldJuly 6th, 2019Scientists 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.
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Hubble Kuiper Belt survey to focus on binary systems
Laurel KornfeldApril 8th, 2019The Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) is set to use the Hubble Space Telescope to conduct the largest ever survey of the Kuiper Belt.
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Collision likely factor in creation of tiny Neptunian moon
Michael McCabeMarch 6th, 2019A moon orbiting Neptune that was discovered using the Hubble Space Telescope in 2013 finally has an origin theory, according to NASA.
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Hubble Space Telescope encounters another camera problem
Derek RichardsonMarch 4th, 2019Just 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.
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Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 resumes operations
Laurel KornfeldJanuary 17th, 2019The 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.
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Hubble camera shut down following anomaly
Jim SharkeyJanuary 10th, 2019Operations of Wide Field Camera 3 on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have been suspended following an anomaly, the space agency said.
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Hubble: You can’t keep a good telescope down – for long
Jason RhianOctober 27th, 2018The Hubble Space Telescope is back in action.
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Chandra X-Ray Observatory back in service after anomaly
Jason RhianOctober 25th, 2018With 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.