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NASA's aging Hubble Space Telescope stuck in safe mode as glitch fixes falter - CNET

NASA's aging Hubble Space Telescope stuck in safe mode as glitch fixes falter - CNET

NASA's aging Hubble Space Telescope stuck in safe mode as glitch fixes falter - CNET
Jun 23, 2021 36 secs

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope during deployment in 1990.

The Hubble team is troubleshooting a problem with the telescope's payload computer -- a piece of hardware built in the 1980s -- that controls its science instruments.

"After analyzing the data, the Hubble operations team is investigating whether a degrading memory module led to the computer halt," NASA said in a statement last week.

The Hubble team will look at switching the telescope to a backup payload computer if the problems can't be fixed.

If past efforts are any indication, Hubble could possibly persevere past this latest problem and resume its valuable science operations, but NASA is also facing the reality of working with old systems that have long outlasted expectations

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