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NASA’s Hubble Restarts Science in New Pointing Mode


NASA successfully transitioned operations for the agency’s Hubble Space Telescope to an alternate operating mode that uses one gyro, returning the spacecraft to daily science operations Friday. The telescope and its instruments are stable and functioning normally. Hubble went into safe mode May 24 due to an ongoing issue with one of its gyroscopes (gyros), […]

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