{"id":1209943,"date":"2023-12-08T20:30:36","date_gmt":"2023-12-09T01:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1209943"},"modified":"2023-12-08T20:30:36","modified_gmt":"2023-12-09T01:30:36","slug":"hubble-back-in-service-after-gyro-scare-nasa-still-studying-reboost-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1209943","title":{"rendered":"Hubble back in service after gyro scare\u2014NASA still studying reboost options"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/hst1-800x531-1.jpg\" alt=\"The Hubble Space Telescope viewed from Space Shuttle Atlantis during a servicing mission in 2009.\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/hst1-scaled.jpg\" class=\"enlarge-link\" data-height=\"1701\" data-width=\"2560\">Enlarge<\/a> <span class=\"sep\">\/<\/span> The Hubble Space Telescope viewed from Space Shuttle Atlantis during a servicing mission in 2009. (credit: NASA)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The Hubble Space Telescope resumed science observations on Friday after ground teams spent most of the last three weeks assessing the performance of a finicky gyroscope, NASA said.<\/p>\n<p>The troublesome gyroscope is a critical part of the observatory&#8217;s pointing system. Hubble&#8217;s gyros measure how fast the spacecraft is turning, helping the telescope aim its aperture toward distant cosmic wonders.<\/p>\n<p>Hubble still provides valuable scientific data for astronomers nearly 34 years since its launch aboard NASA&#8217;s Space Shuttle Discovery in 1990. Five more shuttle servicing missions repaired Hubble, upgraded its science instruments, and replaced hardware degraded from long-term use in space. Among other tasks, astronauts on the last of the shuttle repair flights in 2009 installed six new gyroscopes on Hubble.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1989867#p3\">Read 15 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1989867&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1989867\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hubble back in service after gyro scare\u2014NASA still studying reboost options<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge \/ The Hubble Space Telescope viewed from Space Shuttle Atlantis during a servicing mission in 2009. (credit: NASA) The Hubble Space Telescope resumed science observations on Friday after ground teams spent most of the last three weeks assessing the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1209943\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1209944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1209943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1209943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1209944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1209943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1209943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1209943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}