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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Somebody set up us the bomb! by Anonymous Coward · 2006-09-27 14:28 · Score: 4, Funny

Main screen turn on.
I think NASA is hiding something... by __aaclcg7560 · 2006-09-27 14:40 · Score: 5, Funny

Maybe the camera got smacked by a lost bolt from the International Space Station?
Re:cue the shuttle enthusiasts by headkase · 2006-09-27 18:04 · 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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