{"id":18191,"date":"2019-01-09T23:07:18","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T15:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/hubble-space-telescopes-team-works-to-revive-camera-amid-nasa-shutdown\/"},"modified":"2019-01-09T23:07:18","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T15:07:18","slug":"hubble-space-telescopes-team-works-to-revive-camera-amid-nasa-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/hubble-space-telescopes-team-works-to-revive-camera-amid-nasa-shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Hubble Space Telescope\u2019s team works to revive camera amid NASA shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_472800\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-472800\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full-width wp-image-472800\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/190109-wfc3-630x418.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/190109-wfc3-630x418.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/190109-wfc3-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/190109-wfc3.jpg 1228w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-472800\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NASA astronaut Andrew Feustel, perched on the end of the shuttle Atlantis\u2019 robotic arm, helps to install the Wide Field Camera 3 during 2009 spacewalk to perform work on the Hubble Space Telescope. (NASA Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Engineers are working to bring the Hubble Space Telescope\u2019s wide-angle camera back into operation after a hardware problem knocked it offline.<\/p>\n<p>In a status update, NASA said the problem cropped up on Tuesday and forced a suspension of operations for the Wide Field Camera 3.<\/p>\n<p>WFC3 was installed on the telescope nearly a decade ago during the space shuttle fleet\u2019s final servicing mission. It\u2019s designed to capture high-resolution images in visible, ultraviolet and near-infrared wavelengths.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHubble will continue to perform science observations with its other three active instruments, while the Wide Field Camera 3 anomaly is investigated,\u201d NASA said. Those instruments include the Advanced Camera for Surveys, the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph and the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph.<\/p>\n<p>NASA said that WFC3 is \u201cequipped with redundant electronics should they be needed to recover the instrument.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Operations at NASA have been reduced agency-wide due to a partial government shutdown that\u2019s lasted 19 days so far. However, Christine Pulliam, news director for the Baltimore-based Space Telescope Science Institute, said the shutdown \u201cis not affecting the response to the anomaly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Hubblecast 40: Wide Field Camera 3 - Hubble's New Miracle Camera\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gSXqNBB7TtQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\" data-width=\"800\" data-height=\"450\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px; width: 800px; height: 450px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Last October, a gyroscope failure put the telescope into safe mode for three weeks. Engineers were able to get Hubble\u2019s pointing system back to normal operations&nbsp;by sending up commands to jiggle the telescope and free up whatever was jamming a glitchy backup gyro.<\/p>\n<p>Hubble was sent into orbit nearly 29 years ago, and it\u2019s no longer possible to do on-the-scene repairs due to the retirement of the space shuttle fleet in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope is currently scheduled for launch in 2021. Hubble\u2019s handlers are hoping to keep the old telescope in operation at least until the new one enters service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA astronaut Andrew Feustel, perched on the end of the shuttle Atlantis\u2019 robotic arm, helps to install the Wide Field Camera 3 during 2009 spacewalk to perform work on the Hubble Space Telescope. (NASA Photo) Engineers are working to bring the Hubble Space Telescope\u2019s wide-angle camera back into operation after a hardware problem knocked it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4259,898,190],"class_list":["post-18191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-hubble","tag-hubble-space-telescope","tag-nasa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18191"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}