It tries to repair the Hubble ended in failure

Attempting to engineers from Goddard Space Flight Center to remotely repair the Hubble "(Hubble) ended in failure, reported the official website of the agency. At present, is still analyzing the data collected, tools Telescope remain in hibernation (safe mode).

On Tuesday, 14 October, engineers have begun to change the telescope control system for spare tools and data processing Science Instrument Control and Data Handling. First, all scientific instruments Hubble "has been translated into hibernation. Then engineers successfully launched a spare computer, which had been inactive since the launch telescope. Since then, scientists have begun the withdrawal of tools from hibernation and sequence them to a spare computer.

When you connect the camera Review Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys its imaging system detected a greater strain on some components of the device and the command to go to sleep. A few hours later, lost communications with NASA Standard Spacecraft Computer (NSSC), which is part of the data processing system. Currently, researchers can not say definitely whether there was any link between these two events. While the cause of errors in the NSSC will not be removed, scientific instruments telescope will be located in hibernation.

Recall that the September 27 crash occurred, which resulted failure of the main control system of instruments and data processing Telescope. This, in turn, led to postpone the launch repair mission, shuttle Atlantis, which was originally scheduled for October. There are currently an estimated launch date for NASA calls in February 2009.