Hubble Camera Shuts Down

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday September 27, 2006 @02:23PM from the in-space-nobody-can-see-you-scream dept.

Maggie McKee writes "Hubble's main camera is offline again, but the problem does not appear to be with its power supply, like it was this summer. This time, the issue seems to be the electronics on the sharpest of its three camera-like channels, the High Resolution Channel. NASA says the worst-case scenario is that the ACS could lose half the channel's field of view, so it would take longer to observe its targets. If the problems are truly unrelated, it's been an especially unlucky few months for this instrument!"

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This time, its the Americans... by bogaboga · 2006-09-27 14:30 · Score: 0, Flamebait

You know why I chose that as the subject line? Well, it's because if it were the Russians, then American slashdotters would already have posted comments doubting Russian technology.
Never mind that fact that the Russain Soyuz craft was the main lifeline of the International Space Station (when the shuttle exploded), which space station, would not have been a reality if it were not for Russian participation.