HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE BEGINS "TWO GYRO" SCIENCE OPERATIONS (STScI-PR05-24)

FOR RELEASE: August 31, 2005

Dolores Beasley
Headquarters, Washington
(Phone: 202/358-1753)

Susan Hendrix
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md
(Phone: 301/286-7745)

Donna Weaver
Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore
(Phone: 410/338-4493)

PRESS RELEASE NO.: STScI-PR05-24

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE BEGINS "TWO-GYRO" SCIENCE OPERATIONS

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope entered a new era of science operations
this week, when engineers shut down one of the three operational
gyroscopes aboard the observatory. The two-gyro mode is expected to
preserve the operating life of the third gyro and extend Hubble's
science observations through mid-2008, an eight-month extension.

For the full story, please visit:
http://hubblesite.org/news/2005/24 and
http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2005...t_2_gyros.html

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Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc. (AURA),
for NASA, under contract with the Goddard Space Flight Center,
Greenbelt, Md. The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international
cooperation between NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA).

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