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Old 15-07-2021, 07:48 AM
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Long live almighty Hubble!

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
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Old 17-07-2021, 03:27 PM
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Looks like it worked! Long Live Hubble indeed!


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/techn...ter/ar-AAMehp1
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Old 17-07-2021, 03:36 PM
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Looks like it worked! Long Live Hubble indeed!


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Looks like it worked! Long Live Hubble indeed!


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Old 17-07-2021, 05:39 PM
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Yeah it's awesome news
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Old 17-07-2021, 05:54 PM
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Kudos to the Engineers who designed this level of redundancy in the Hubble systems in the first place.
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Old 17-07-2021, 08:34 PM
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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!
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Old 17-07-2021, 09:54 PM
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I am very happy to hear there is a good chance to get it working again.
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Old 18-07-2021, 09:23 AM
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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
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Old 18-07-2021, 09:51 AM
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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.
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Old 18-07-2021, 10:06 AM
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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.
Did they also offer them a Redundancy payment Gary?
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Old 18-07-2021, 11:10 AM
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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
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Old 18-07-2021, 07:14 PM
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Awesome!
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