Engineers have been troubleshooting NASA's Hubble Telescope since it went offline in mid-June. Now, they're going to try switching to backup hardware.
on Thursday that it had successfully tested a procedure that would switch parts of the telescope's hardware to their back-up components.
This could pave the way for the payload computer to come back online, leading to the restart of Hubble's scientific observations. NASA reported the procedure could happen as early as next week, following additional preparations and reviews. The telescope and the scientific instruments on board remain in working condition."You can't actually put your hands on and change hardware or take a voltage, so that does make it very challenging,"Seven astronauts on the Space Shuttle Endeavour replaced a malfunctioning mirror on the Hubble Space Telescope in December 1993.
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