Switchover Success! -- Hubble Now Restarting... Coming Out Of "Safe" Mode.

Hubble may be back imaging space by next week, now. It has been in safe mode for over a month at this point.

Here's the latest, out of the team at Goddard:

. . .NASA has successfully switched to backup hardware on the Hubble Space Telescope, including powering on the backup payload computer, on July 15. The switch was performed to compensate for a problem with the original payload computer that occurred on June 13 when the computer halted, suspending science data collection. . . .

The Hubble team is now monitoring the hardware to ensure that everything is working properly. The team has also started the process for recovering the science instruments out of their safe mode configuration. This activity is expected to take more than a day as the team runs various procedures and ensures the instruments are at stable temperatures. The team will then conduct some initial calibration of the instruments before resuming normal science operations. . . .

Onward, grinning now.

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