Hubble Telescope's Main Camera Shuts Down

anthemaniac writes "Space.com is reporting that the aging observatory's primary camera, the ACS, has been in safe mode since the weekend. From the article: 'An initial investigation indicates the camera has stopped functioning, and the input power feed to its Side B electronics package has failed.' The camera has shut down before and been revived."

Comments

of course not

[User 956]

Space.com is reporting that the aging observatory's primary camera, the ACS, has been in safe mode since the weekend.

No wonder they can't contact it. Safe Mode doesn't support networking by default.

They should just hit F8 on startup

[Anonymous Coward]

and choose "Last known good configuration."

Just outsource to China

[EmbeddedJanitor]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/space/01/18/china.mis sile/index.html

Hubble tribute song

[Bifurcati]

Seems like an appropriate time to post a parody I wrote recently. It's not really up to scratch, but you never know when you might need to sing a Hubble tribute! You can also find other physics songs and humour on my home page :)

Only Me (A Hubble Tribute)
To the tune of "Only you"
By Joel Gilmore, 2007

Looking at the sky up above
Taking photos with love,
Can you fix me?
Found out only yesterday,
my orbit's soon to decay
Can't you boost me?

Chorus:

All I needed was a manned space flight
All I needed for another night
Since 1993 -
only me.

If I lose one more gyroscope
I don't know if I'll cope,
Send Discovery!
Install Wide Field Camera 3,
Spectrograph, batteries,
My camera's dying!

Chorus:

All I needed was a manned space flight
All I needed for another night
Until James Webb, there'll be -
only ME!