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Hubble returns to normal operations after switch to backup computer

18/07/2021 11:00 PM | Click to read full article

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope returned to science operations July 17 after a hiatus of more than a month as controllers successfully switched the orbiting observatory to a backup payload computer.

NASA said the instruments of the 31-year-old telescope are now operational nearly five weeks after a payload computer, which commands those instruments, malfunctioned. Those instruments will resume normal science observations after completing calibrations.

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