Space Shuttle Mission Rescheduled for February 2009CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - The Hubble Space Telescope was in the final stages of recovery on Thursday after NASA successfully bypassed a faulty computer and resurrected an 18-year-old spare from orbital hibernation.
The faulty computer, which is needed to collect and process data from science instruments, prompted NASA to delay a long-awaited space shuttle mission to service the telescope.
The flight has been rescheduled for February, when the crew will attempt to replace the failed computer.
The faulty computer, which is needed to collect and process data from science instruments, prompted NASA to delay a long-awaited space shuttle mission to service the telescope.
The flight has been rescheduled for February, when the crew will attempt to replace the failed computer.
The Hubble telescope has captured a rare alignment between two spiral galaxies. The outer rim of a small, foreground galaxy is silhouetted in front of a larger background galaxy. Skeletal tentacles of dust can be seen extending beyond the small galaxy's disk of starlight. From ground-based telescopes, the two galaxies look like a single blob.(Courtesy NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team)
This galaxy, Arp 148, is a ring-shaped galaxy with a long tail, possibly the result of an ongoing collision between two galaxies. (NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration and A. Evans (University of Virginia, Charlottesville/NRAO/Stony Brook University), K. Noll (STScI), and J. Westphal (Caltech))
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