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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. More money down the drain by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Ah, but that's how congressional pork works. Oh well, soon we'll have more colorful pictures of dots on a black background. Maybe they should consider using the money to create free health care in the US ?

    1. Re:More money down the drain by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      That's right; anything paid for by taxes is free!

    2. Re:More money down the drain by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Sure, why use a few hundred million on exploring our huge universe when we can pour billions on fixing similarly hugely overpaid dorks' mess.