Hubble in Trouble: Little Hope for Failing Camera

by ianivs | January 30, 2007 at 10:48 am

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The Hubble Space Telescope's main camera — the ACS (advanced camera for surveys) — has stopped working. It went into safe mode early Saturday morning, and engineers for the space telescope have little hope it can be fixed.

This camera was replaced recently, it is only 4 years old. And the next mission to the telescope will probably not have time to fix this issue, which is not an easy task.
The next Hubble mission is aimed at increasing the telescope's capability and keep it running until the Webb telescope can be launched early next decade.