Saturday, October 13, 2018

PHYS.ORG: Another NASA space telescope shuts down in orbit


October 12, 2018 by Marcia Dunn:
Another NASA space telescope shuts down in orbit

"Less than a week after the Hubble Space Telescope went offline, the Chandra X-ray Observatory did the same thing. NASA said Friday that Chandra's automatically went into so-called safe mode Wednesday, possibly because of a gyroscope problem.
Hubble went into hibernation last Friday due to a gyroscope failure."

Read article here:
https://phys.org/news/2018-10-nasa-space-telescope-orbit.html

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