"Hubble is back!’ Famed space telescope has new lease on life after computer swap appears to fix glitch"
"The iconic but elderly Hubble Space Telescope appears to have been resurrected again after a shutdown of more than a month following a computer glitch. Science has learned that following a switch from the operating payload control computer to a backup device over the past 24 hours, Hubble’s operators have re-established communications with all the telescope’s instruments and plan to return them to normal operations today.
“Hubble is back!” Tom Brown, head of the Hubble mission office, emailed to staff at the Space Telescope Science Institute at at 5:56 a.m.. “I am excited to watch Hubble get back to exploring the universe.”
FULL Science Magazine STORY HERE.
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