Hubble Space Telescope team revives powerful camera instrument after glitch - Space.com

The Hubble Space Telescope continues to bounce back from its latest glitch.

And they just scored another success, recovering the observatory's Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) on Sunday (Nov. 21), NASA officials wrote in an update Monday (Nov. 22)!

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The Hubble team recovered the ACS and WFC3 without making significant changes to their parameters.

The WFC3 is Hubble's most heavily used instrument, representing more than one-third of its observing time, NASA officials said.

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Hubble's five main science instruments today are the ACS, WFC3, the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph, the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph and the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer.

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