NASA: Hubble Space Telescope Adopts New Operating Method to Extend Lifespan
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope will adopt a new operating method to prevent observational lapses, officials announced. Traditionally, Hubble has used six gyroscopes to control its direction. However, some of these gyros have failed over time, leaving only three operational. Recently, one of these three gyros began providing faulty readings, causing Hubble to enter “safe mode” and halt observations.
To address this, NASA will shift Hubble to operate on a single gyro, keeping another in reserve. This change, developed over two decades ago, aims to extend Hubble’s operational lifespan. Despite this adjustment, the quality of Hubble’s scientific observations will remain largely unaffected, although the telescope will require more time to lock onto targets and won’t track objects closer to Earth than Mars.
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The Hubble team is working to reconfigure the telescope and its ground system, aiming to resume normal observations by mid-June. Although there was a study on boosting Hubble to a higher orbit with commercial assistance, no plans are currently in place for such a maneuver. Hubble is expected to continue its valuable cosmic observations into the mid-2030s, complementing the work of the James Webb Space Telescope and future observatories.
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