Pesky Glitch Forces NASA to Change the Way Hubble Works, and It's Not for the Better

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Pesky Glitch Forces NASA to Change the Way Hubble Works, and It's Not for the Better
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It’s already been used far beyond its planned operational status and everything since then has been gravy.

It’s amazing that they’re able to find workarounds to keep it useful for scientific tests and analysis.

It’s still got a lot of good science left, with a decade of orbit to figure out how to get back to it for maintenance we could keep it running.

. “One-gyro mode actually returns Hubble to consistent science operations and it allows us to keep another gyro working...for potential future use.”

They even kept a backup.