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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It is done! The longest-running and most famous camera in the world, Hubble's WFPC2, has been removed and replaced.
Yesterday, the Space Shuttle Atlantis docked with the Hubble Space Telescope, and now the removal and replacement of WFPC2 has commenced.
Welcome to part 3 of our goodbyes to the Hubble Space Telescope's WFPC2 (the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2, pronounced WHIFF-pic-too) instrument.
NASA is powering HST control electronics up again, right about now
cf nasaspaceflight.com and spaceflight.com
See! Vinyl is just as good as CD. You can play the B side if the A side gets scratched.