16-October-2008, 10:24 PM
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From Aviation Now:
Controllers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center are calibrating the Hubble Space Telescope's instruments to begin making observations again Friday, after switching the orbiting observatory's Science Instrument Control and Data Handling system to its backup "B" side.
The calibration involves comparing baseline exposures on the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC-2) and other instruments that have been handled by the newly activated B side with the same exposures supported earlier by the "A" side, which failed Sept. 27 and sent the telescope into safe mode (Aerospace DAILY, Sept. 30).
If all goes as planned, "a full schedule of science observations with the WFPC2 camera, ACS' Solar Blind Channel camera, and the Fine Guidance Sensors will resume early Friday morning," the Hubble program said this morning. |