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ACS on HST broken?
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=2115075
"BALTIMORE Jun 24, 2006 (AP)‹ The main camera on the Hubble Space Telescope, which has revolutionized astronomy with its stunning pictures of the universe, has stopped working, an instrument specialist who works with the camera said Saturday. The Advanced Camera for Surveys, a third-generation instrument installed by a space shuttle crew in 2002, went off line Monday, and engineers are still trying to figure out what happened and how to repair it. "It's still off line today," Max Mutchler, an instruments specialist at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, said Saturday. " Going to be a nasty blow to the HST with that offline - some of its pictures have been pretty useful.. -- The greatest enemy of science is pseudoscience. Jaffa cakes. Sweet delicious orangey jaffa goodness, and an abject lesson why parroting information from the web will not teach you cosmology. Official emperor of sci.physics, head mumbler of the "Cult of INSANE SCIENCE". Please pay no attention to my butt poking forward, it is expanding. Relf's Law? "Bull**** repeated to the limit of infinity asymptotically approaches the odour of roses." |
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It's in Safe Mode, they might find a way to work around whatever caused it
to go into Safe Mode. -- The Lone Sidewalk Astronomer of Rosamond Telescope Buyers FAQ http://home.inreach.com/starlord Sidewalk Astronomy www.sidewalkastronomy.info Astronomy Net Online Gift Shop http://www.cafepress.com/astronomy_net In Garden Online Gift Shop http://www.cafepress.com/ingarden Blast Off Online Gift Shop http://www.cafepress.com/starlords Astro Blog http://starlord.bloggerteam.com/ "Phineas T Puddleduck" wrote in message news:250620061842157719%phineaspuddleduck@googlema il.com_NOSPAM... http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=2115075 "BALTIMORE Jun 24, 2006 (AP) The main camera on the Hubble Space Telescope, which has revolutionized astronomy with its stunning pictures of the universe, has stopped working, an instrument specialist who works with the camera said Saturday. The Advanced Camera for Surveys, a third-generation instrument installed by a space shuttle crew in 2002, went off line Monday, and engineers are still trying to figure out what happened and how to repair it. "It's still off line today," Max Mutchler, an instruments specialist at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, said Saturday. " Going to be a nasty blow to the HST with that offline - some of its pictures have been pretty useful.. -- The greatest enemy of science is pseudoscience. Jaffa cakes. Sweet delicious orangey jaffa goodness, and an abject lesson why parroting information from the web will not teach you cosmology. Official emperor of sci.physics, head mumbler of the "Cult of INSANE SCIENCE". Please pay no attention to my butt poking forward, it is expanding. Relf's Law? "Bull**** repeated to the limit of infinity asymptotically approaches the odour of roses." |
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In article , Starlord
wrote: It's in Safe Mode, they might find a way to work around whatever caused it to go into Safe Mode. Its a worry for certain. It may not be quite so easy from earth to ctrl-alt-del ;-) -- The greatest enemy of science is pseudoscience. Jaffa cakes. Sweet delicious orangey jaffa goodness, and an abject lesson why parroting information from the web will not teach you cosmology. Official emperor of sci.physics, head mumbler of the "Cult of INSANE SCIENCE". Please pay no attention to my butt poking forward, it is expanding. Relf's Law? "Bull**** repeated to the limit of infinity asymptotically approaches the odour of roses." |
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Phineas T Puddleduck wrote in
news:250620061842157719%phineaspuddleduck@googlema il.com_NOSPAM: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=2115075 "BALTIMORE Jun 24, 2006 (AP)‹ The main camera on the Hubble Space Telescope, which has revolutionized astronomy with its stunning pictures of the universe, has stopped working, an instrument specialist who works with the camera said Saturday. The Advanced Camera for Surveys, a third-generation instrument installed by a space shuttle crew in 2002, went off line Monday, and engineers are still trying to figure out what happened and how to repair it. "It's still off line today," Max Mutchler, an instruments specialist at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, said Saturday. " Going to be a nasty blow to the HST with that offline - some of its pictures have been pretty useful.. http://www.stsci.edu/hst/ACSSuspends Looks to be some sort of power supply problem. Hopefully they will be able to sort it out. Klazmon. |
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lanzlan Klazmon wrote:
Phineas T Puddleduck wrote in news:250620061842157719%phineaspuddleduck@googlem ail.com_NOSPAM: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=2115075 "BALTIMORE Jun 24, 2006 (AP)‹ The main camera on the Hubble Space Telescope, which has revolutionized astronomy with its stunning pictures of the universe, has stopped working, an instrument specialist who works with the camera said Saturday. The Advanced Camera for Surveys, a third-generation instrument installed by a space shuttle crew in 2002, went off line Monday, and engineers are still trying to figure out what happened and how to repair it. "It's still off line today," Max Mutchler, an instruments specialist at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, said Saturday. " Going to be a nasty blow to the HST with that offline - some of its pictures have been pretty useful.. http://www.stsci.edu/hst/ACSSuspends Looks to be some sort of power supply problem. Hopefully they will be able to sort it out. Klazmon. How long will it be until the first kook starts claiming it is a NASA conspiracy to hide some profound truth? -- Official Associate AFA-B Vote Rustler Official Overseer of Kooks and Saucerheads in alt.astronomy Co-Winner, alt.(f)lame Worst Flame War, December 2005 Official "Usenet psychopath and born-again LLPOF minion", as designated by Brad Guth "And without accurate measuring techniques, how can they even *call* quantum theory a "scientific" one? How can it possibly be referred to as a "fundamental branch of physics"?" -- Painsnuh the Lamer "Well, orientals moved to the U.S. and did amazingly well on their own, and the races are related (brown)." -- "Honest" John pontificates on racial purity "Significant new ideas have rarely come from the ranks of the establishment." -- Double-A on technology development |
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In article , Art Deco
wrote: How long will it be until the first kook starts claiming it is a NASA conspiracy to hide some profound truth? Less then a day -- The greatest enemy of science is pseudoscience. Jaffa cakes. Sweet delicious orangey jaffa goodness, and an abject lesson why parroting information from the web will not teach you cosmology. Official emperor of sci.physics, head mumbler of the "Cult of INSANE SCIENCE". Please pay no attention to my butt poking forward, it is expanding. Relf's Law? "Bull**** repeated to the limit of infinity asymptotically approaches the odour of roses." |
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Phineas T Puddleduck wrote in
news:250620061944582896%phineaspuddleduck@googlema il.com_NOSPAM: In article , Starlord wrote: It's in Safe Mode, they might find a way to work around whatever caused it to go into Safe Mode. Its a worry for certain. It may not be quite so easy from earth to ctrl-alt-del ;-) They talk about cutting over to the backup circuitry but I gather they want to do some tests to determine the actual cause before attempting that. Klazmon. |
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Phineas T Puddleduck wrote in
news:260620060215012912%phineaspuddleduck@googlema il.com_NOSPAM: Less then a day Give that man a cigar! Over on a web forum I peruse I found the following: "they" do not want us to see (what's coming or what it is).....for "overjoyed" or "freaked out" may occur???...... causing imbalance within the public venue. Brian -- http://www.skywise711.com - Lasers, Seismology, Astronomy, Skepticism Seismic FAQ: http://www.skywise711.com/SeismicFAQ/SeismicFAQ.html Quake "predictions": http://www.skywise711.com/quakes/EQDB/index.html Sed quis custodiet ipsos Custodes? |
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Phineas T Puddleduck wrote: In article , Starlord wrote: It's in Safe Mode, they might find a way to work around whatever caused it to go into Safe Mode. Its a worry for certain. It may not be quite so easy from earth to ctrl-alt-del ;-) Speaking of which, someday I'd love to find out what heroic feats of engineering got the Mars Rover rebooted when it crashed early in its mission. When I heard about the failure, and then about the recovery, I thought "there's a heckuva story there somewhere". Anybody ever heard details? - Randy |
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They turned off the flash memory and uploaded a patch to the rover that
allowed it to send the flash memory without haveing to reboot, once installed they flushed the flash and had it reboot. -- The Lone Sidewalk Astronomer of Rosamond Telescope Buyers FAQ http://home.inreach.com/starlord Sidewalk Astronomy www.sidewalkastronomy.info Astronomy Net Online Gift Shop http://www.cafepress.com/astronomy_net In Garden Online Gift Shop http://www.cafepress.com/ingarden Blast Off Online Gift Shop http://www.cafepress.com/starlords Astro Blog http://starlord.bloggerteam.com/ "Randy Poe" wrote in message ups.com... Phineas T Puddleduck wrote: In article , Starlord wrote: It's in Safe Mode, they might find a way to work around whatever caused it to go into Safe Mode. Its a worry for certain. It may not be quite so easy from earth to ctrl-alt-del ;-) Speaking of which, someday I'd love to find out what heroic feats of engineering got the Mars Rover rebooted when it crashed early in its mission. When I heard about the failure, and then about the recovery, I thought "there's a heckuva story there somewhere". Anybody ever heard details? - Randy |
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