Good news! According to a new update, the Hubble Space Telescope is back to full science operations.
A software glitch forced the telescope into safe mode early last month, but the four scientific instruments are now live again, thanks to weeks of hard work.
The timing couldn't be better, as NASA is getting ready to launch its long-awaited James Webb Space Telescope in a matter of weeks, allowing the two observatories to "work together well into this decade, expanding our knowledge of the cosmos even further," as NASA wrote in today's
Out of sync.
NASA scientists had issues with the commands they received from Earth. Engineers tried to fix the issues in early November.
Scientists pushed several changes to the software in order to bring scientific instruments back online.
The team will continue work on developing and testing changes to instrument software that would allow them to conduct science operations even if they encounter several lost synchronization messages in the future.
The Hubble Space Telescope has been in operation for 31 years. The last time it was serviced in person by astronauts was over a decade ago.
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