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Hubble's Advanced Camera Suspends Operations

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the burnout-revenge dept.

helio writes "The Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) went offline on June 19, 2006. The cause is yet undetermined, although engineers suspect that the culprit may be a bad transistor in the ACS's electronic control board or possibly a memory corruption event due to energetic particle bombardment. Since a backup electronic controller is available for service, this incident is not very likely to lead to the end of the Hubble's Advanced Camera in any event. But, before any attempt to reactivate the camera, engineers are cautiously evaluating and isolating the probable cause of this incident in order to avoid any further incident."

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  1. Re:Funding by (negative+video) · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    On the other hand, you can't do UV astronomy from the ground. The air is opaque to UV light.
    Ah, so what you're saying is we need to thin out the air a bit, in fact just get rid of it.

    I can see the War on Air now: "Muslims, Mr. President. Our top scientists have determined that Muslims need air." "There's only one thing to do then ..."