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NASA To Repair Hubble By Remote Control

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the in-my-day-i-had-to-walk-over-and-do-it-manually dept.

Matt_dk writes "NASA says it plans to fix the Hubble Space Telescope by remote control this week. The Hubble stopped beaming information to Earth about two weeks ago, when a data unit on the telescope completely failed. Scientists on Tuesday said they will bypass the failed unit and switch to a back-up system to restart the flow of information. The computer glitch forced NASA to postpone a shuttle mission this month to repair the Hubble. That shuttle mission has been postponed until next year." Update - 10/15, 17:45 by SS: Readers have pointed out further details from Spaceflight Now and the NASA press release.

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  1. They're gonna need by krog · · Score: 4, Funny

    Some really fresh AA batteries to make this work.

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  2. MST3K by staryc · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's about time someone fixed the Hubble after Mike Nelson crashed the Satellite of Love into it.

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  3. Fixed! by PearsSoap · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hubble

    There, fixed that for you, NASA.

  4. Finally! by TheNecromancer · · Score: 3, Funny

    They're going to get some use out of that old Atari joystick that's been sitting in the office!

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  5. But what they don't know .... by RoverDaddy · · Score: 2, Funny

    is that Hubble will burn out the transmitter relay before NASA can send the command sequence requesting all its science data through the backup system, thus requiring The Creator to appear in person to complete the sequence. Calling Story Musgrave!

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  6. Re:So, a better summary... by PolygamousRanchKid+ · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's pretty amazing that these parts are still working after...how many years?

    Maybe NVIDIA needs to have a chat with NASA about quality assurance.

    Well, that and Tang, of course.

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