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NASA Facing Make Or Break Decision For Hubble Future

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 Washington (UPI) Oct 24, 2008
U.S. space officials reactivated the Hubble space telescope's instrument panel Thursday in an effort to get the telescope transmitting again.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said the telescope, which has been plagued with problems since last month, could resume taking pictures as early as Saturday, the Los Angeles Times reported Friday.

An independent review team said last week's power supply failure appears to have been caused by a limit-checking algorithm that triggered before the data that it was checking were valid.

The sudden halt of the spacecraft computer appears to have been triggered by a self-clearing short-circuit in the control plane, NASA said in a release.

Officials said there does not appear to be any permanent damage to the instruments on telescope, which has been orbiting Earth for 18 years.

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SPACE SCOPES
Hubble Control And Data Systems Reactivated
 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 24, 2008
 The Hubble Space Telescope Science Instrument Control and Data Handling system was reactivated on Thursday, October 23. This should enable Wide Field Planetary Camera-2 science observations to resume on Saturday, October 25. The Advanced Camera for Surveys Solar Blind Channel science observations should resume later next week.






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