Long live almighty Hubble!

[Camelopardalis]

I expect the reason many of us got into imaging to explore the sky in search of many of the treasures that the Hubble Space Telescope has shown us.

Today, Thursday, US time, NASA is looking to switch to the backup computer.

I have everything crossed :lol:

[Stonius]

Looks like it worked! Long Live Hubble indeed!


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/nasa-successfully-switched-hubble-telescope-to-backup-computer/ar-AAMehp1

[Rainmaker]

:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

[Sunfish]

:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

[Camelopardalis]

Yeah it's awesome news :thumbsup:

[Peter Ward]

Kudos to the Engineers who designed this level of redundancy in the Hubble systems in the first place. :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

[DarkArts]

I read this today, too. Great news! There's still nothing quite as good as Hubble and even when James Webb is up there, that'll be IR images.

Long live Hubble!

[alpal]

I am very happy to hear there is a good chance to get it working again.

[Camelopardalis]

Yeah hats off to the engineers and operators at NASA/ESA that have kept it running all these years. I continue to be awed by its achievements.

30 years for an astro computer isn’t bad going…wish mine would last that long :lol:

[gary]

The design engineers working in the Department of Redundancy Department
have been rewarded with an additional weekend off which will be taken
concurrently with this weekend.

[RB]

Did they also offer them a Redundancy payment Gary?

[RobF]

YES!!!

When NASA says something (switching to the backup computer) is "very risky", sounds like we've been fortunate indeed. And first time turned on in 12 years :)

[venus]

Awesome!