NASA Struggles to Fix Failure of Hubble Space Telescope's 1980s Computer - SciTechDaily

The Hubble Space Telescope was launched by the space shuttle Discovery on April 24, 1990.

NASA continues to work on resolving an issue with the payload computer on the Hubble Space Telescope.

The science instruments will remain in a safe mode state until the issue is resolved.

The telescope itself and science instruments remain in good health.

The computer halted on Sunday, June 13.

Initial indications pointed to a degrading computer memory module as the source of the computer halt.

When the operations team attempted to switch to a back-up memory module, however, the command to initiate the backup module failed to complete.

The payload computer is a NASA Standard Spacecraft Computer-1 (NSSC-1) system built in the 1980s that is located on the Science Instrument Command and Data Handling unit.

The computer’s purpose is to control and coordinate the science instruments and monitor them for health and safety purposes.

The payload computer uses only one memory module operationally at a time, with the other three serving as backups!

I highly doubt that the computer is running windows

June 17, 2021

June 17, 2021

June 17, 2021

June 17, 2021

June 17, 2021