Hubble status -- update 10/25

Hubble Status Report #7

October 25, 2008
The current primary camera on the Hubble Space Telescope is now back
in active operation and will resume science observations shortly.

Just before 9:30 a.m. EDT this morning on board Hubble, the
telescope's science computer began to send commands to Wide Field
Planetary Camera-2. These commands brought the computer out of the
quiescent, safe state in which it has waited since the computer shut
down on October 16.

Additional commanding allowed engineers on the ground to assess the
instrument's state of health and verify the contents of the camera's
microprocessor memory. All systems are poised to begin acquiring
science data later today.

The first observations made will be for data calibration purposes. The
team at the Space Telescope Science Institute, which manages Hubble
science, expects to release an image late next week.