WFPC2 is back on.
"The current primary camera on the Hubble Space Telescope is now back in active operation and will resume science observations shortly.
Just before 9:30 a.m. EDT this morning on board Hubble, the telescope's science computer began to send commands to Wide Field Planetary Camera-2. These commands brought the computer out of the quiescent, safe state in which it has waited since the computer shut down on October 16."
Hope they bring NICMOS back up also.
Expect an interim call for proposals for WFPC2/NIC within a week or two.
If it is really working again.
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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.
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…
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…
Science operations have resumed.
Servicing Mission 4 has been delayed even further.
WFPC2 lives!
Arp 147. Pretty!
but...
SM-4 is delayed beyond the current delay to feb '09
"NASA managers have announced that they will not meet a February 2009 launch date for the fifth and final shuttle mission to…
See! Vinyl is just as good as CD. You can play the B side if the A side gets scratched.