Side 2 (spare) electronics were powered up on the Advanced Camera for Surveys.
Preliminary indications are that they are in good shape and that the ACS will be live and taking science data again by July 4th.
Looks good.
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Last wednesday engineers switched the data management system on the Hubble to the spare "B-side" and the instruments sprung back to life.
The old Wide Field/Planetary Camera (2) and the Near Infrared Camera and Multi Object Spectrograph came back to life.
The someone decided to turn on the…
Ok, it is really official Space Telescope news on ACS (dynamic web page)
Spare power electronics popped, not recoverable, may not be repairable.
They're looking to see if they can run the ACS SBC only off the A-side electronics (which failed last year, which is why the ACS is running on the spare…
News item at NASA HQ website:
The B-side power supply on the ACS has crapped out
Not good, since they switched to it when the A-side went flakey.
May be fixable. Or not.
PS: there was a 3pm telecon on the status of HST today
if anyone was on it, let me know what they said. If there was anything new…
NASAwatch reports ACS outage
Electronics problems. ACS observations suspended for a week while a tiger team studies the issue.
Could be resolved quickly, or could be Really Bad News.
Will keep an eye out.
Hm, leaves WFPC2 and NICMOS operating. They'll run out of targets pretty quickly.
Hopefully…
Thanks for mentioning that. It actually cheers me up a bit.