There is absolutely no truth to the rumour circulated at coffee this morning that the failure of Hubble's Advanced Camera power supply was due to impact from pieces of a Chinese satellite
I have, however, not been able to refute rumour that a golf ball sized object may have been responsible...
That will teach them not to use a six-iron in Low Earth Orbit
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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.
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