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Mike Wehner
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The Hubble Space Telescope is old. It's rapidly approaching its 31st anniversary of being launched on its mission to study the cosmos, and while 31 years might not seem like that long, for a piece of machinery orbiting Earth — and enduring all that comes with being exposed to space — that's a very long time. It's worked well for a very long time, returning some incredible images and other observations of structures in space, but it isn't going to last forever, and this week it showed its age.
On March 7th, Hubble unexpectedly shut down its science observations. The automated systems that keep track of the spacecraft's health triggered the switch, putting the telescope into "safe mode" due to what is being described as "a software error within the spacecraft's main computer." Unfortunately, that was just the beginning of the weirdness that Hubble's handlers had to deal with over the past week.
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