Thursday, July 8, 2021

Good -- If Tentative -- News, On Hubble: Multi-Day Ground Test Success. Now To Restore The Payload Computer, In Orbit...


Goddard put the below update out, overnight.

It is very encouraging. And all the (ground replicated simulator) "re-wiring" was completed via radioed software commands. Amazing. Now, to do the same -- as Hubble orbits in space:

. . .NASA successfully completed a test of procedures that would be used to switch to backup hardware on Hubble in response to the payload computer problem. This switch could occur next week after further preparations and reviews. . . .


We now see a more encouraging path forward -- to restarting imaging / space science operations in a couple of weeks, then. Sweet. Grinning. . . .

नमस्ते

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