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Elderberry:
USA TODAY by Sudiksha Kochi 6/22/2021

Hubble Telescope's payload computer is down. NASA has spent days trying to fix it.

NASA has spent more than a week trying to fix the Hubble Telescope's computer hardware issues.

The problem: a 1980s-era payload computer, which is supposed to control and coordinate scientific instruments aboard the spacecraft and monitor them for health and safety purposes, stopped working June 13, according to a NASA statement.

"After the halt occurred ... the main computer stopped receiving a “keep-alive” signal, which is a standard handshake between the payload and main spacecraft computers to indicate all is well," NASA said in the statement.

The payload computer is part of the Science Instrument Command and Data Handling module, which was replaced in 2009 during the last astronaut-servicing mission to Hubble, which launched in 1990.

The main computer has put all the scientific instruments into safe mode. An attempt to restart the computer the next day failed.

More: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/06/21/hubble-telescope-payload-computer-nasa/5296061001/

corbe:

DB:
Its dead Jim.

Smokin Joe:
Gotta watch those automatic updates...

Absalom:

--- Quote from: Elderberry on June 23, 2021, 12:13:21 am ---USA TODAY by Sudiksha Kochi 6/22/2021
Hubble Telescope's payload computer is down. NASA has spent days trying to fix it.
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Er..................my neighbor's power mower went down Sunday w/only half her grass cut!
I'm putting these parties in touch w/each other!!!



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