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Hubble Camera Shuts Down

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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!"

6 of 106 comments (clear)

  1. Somebody set up us the bomb! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Main screen turn on.

  2. Re:This time, its the Americans... by BadAnalogyGuy · · Score: 2, Funny

    Also, remember that it was the Russian space station that the oil drilling crew docked to when blasting off to save the world. It's too bad that the thing exploded, though. Stupid made in Taiwan parts.

  3. I think NASA is hiding something... by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe the camera got smacked by a lost bolt from the International Space Station?

  4. "Do0d I am so stOned", said Hubble by iluvovaltine · · Score: 2, Funny

    I bet NASA has some sweet solar vaporizers. Cosmic weed...? Did someone call p-funk or something?

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  5. Is that on the antenna mounting? by Lactoso · · Score: 2, Funny
    "Things aren't built to last forever. Anyone know what the envisioned life of the ACS is? (no pun intended)"

    I'm not sure, but my Fault Prediction Center reports that the AE-35 unit may fail within seventy-two hours.

  6. Re:cue the shuttle enthusiasts by headkase · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...and no principle exists to make the atmosphere transparent to UV...

    We could start using CFC's again... ;)

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