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Monday, November 23, 2009

Photo: Hubble Revival Halted Due to Unforeseen Glitch


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Remote repairs to the Hubble Space Telescope, seen above, were brought to a screeching halt on October 17, 2008, when engineers ran into an as-yet undisclosed glitch.

NASA engineers had been trying to revive the telescope after a data formatter, which sends information to Earth, failed in September and rendered Hubble virtually mute.

Photograph courtesy NASA/ESA