VENUS FOUND TO BE MORE GEOLOGICALLY ACTIVE THAN PREVIOUSLY BELIEVEDIn a release, the company noted that the HST– named for conducting astronomer Edwin Hubble– and its science instruments remain in “good health and are currently in a safe configuration. According to the upgrade, the CU formats and sends out information and commands to “specific destinations” that include the science instruments and the SDF formats the science information from the science instruments to communicate it to the Earth.NASA ADMINISTRATOR DETAILS MISSIONS TO MOON, MARS, VENUS AND THE AGENCYS EFFORTS ON EARTHThe power regulator is also a prospective offender and NASA said the team would continue to examine hardware on the SI C&DH unit over the next week.”If the team figures out the CU/SDF or the power regulator is the most likely cause, they will recommend switching to the backup CU/SDF module and the backup power regulator,” it said.This is not the first time this year that the HST has run into operating concerns.
The Hubble Space Telescope hovers at the limit of Earth and area in this picture, taken after Hubbles second maintenance mission in 1997.
(NASA)In March, the telescope “went into safe mode due to an onboard software application error.” The problem was solved simply days later on and science operations rapidly resumed– though getting the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) instrument up and practical proved a little more difficult.The HST was released by the area shuttle bus Discovery in 1990 and has been observing deep space for more than 31 years.CLICK HERE FOR THE FOX NEWS APP The telescopes observation capabilities have “grown profoundly” as new, innovative clinical instruments were included over the course of five astronaut maintenance missions.The HST has made more than 1.4 million observations throughout its life time– contributing to some of the most considerable discoveries of the universes– and recalled into the universes past to areas more than 13.4 billion light-years from Earth.