Tag: Chandra X-ray Observatory
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After encountering glitches, Hubble and Chandra space telescopes make recoveries
The Hubble Space Telescope hangs in orbit after a 2002 servicing mission. (NASA Photo) Things are looking up for two of NASA’s Great Observatories, the Hubble Space Telescope and the Chandra X-Ray Observatory. Both telescopes had to go out of service this month due to different types of problems experienced by their gyroscopic pointing systems.…
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Chandra X-ray telescope is back at work: Engineers trace glitch to 3 seconds of error
An artist’s conception shows the Chandra X-Ray Observatory. (NASA / CXC / SAO Illustration) NASA’s 19-year-old Chandra X-ray Observatory has been returned to its normal pointing mode after a data glitch forced a five-day outage, NASA said today. The bus-sized spacecraft went into safe mode on Oct. 10, bringing science observations to a halt. The…
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Chandra X-ray telescope experiences a glitch; Hubble troubleshooting continues
An artist’s conception shows the Chandra X-ray Observatory. (NASA / CXC / SAO Illustration) Even as experts worked on ways to get the Hubble Space Telescope back doing science, another one of NASA’s Great Observatories in space — the Chandra X-ray Observatory — went into safe mode as well. NASA said the 19-year-old X-ray telescope put…