The Hubble Space Telescope.Image: NASAThe Hubble recovery group believes its lastly tracked down an issue thats kept the space telescope out of commission for over a month.The problem began on June 13, when an onboard computer system unexpectedly ground to a halt. The issue is with the payload computer, which monitors and manages Hubbles science instruments. The Hubble recovery group has tried all sorts of tests over the past couple of weeks (a running list of procedures taken can be seen here), along with efforts to restart and reconfigure the payload computer, however absolutely nothing has worked.

The Hubble Space Telescope.Image: NASAThe Hubble recovery team thinks its finally tracked down a problem thats kept the space telescope out of commission for over a month.The problem began on June 13, when an onboard computer system all of a sudden ground to a halt. The problem is with the payload computer system, which monitors and controls Hubbles science instruments. The Hubble recovery group has attempted all sorts of tests over the previous couple of weeks (a running list of procedures taken can be seen here), along with efforts to reboot and reconfigure the payload computer system, but nothing has actually worked.