When all else fails, reboot

[Abbey Marie]

My husband is in IT, and has travelled as far as Japan for his job. But never this far...

NASA to attempt to reboot Hubble Space Telescope By Irene Klotz
Tue Oct 14, 2:37 PM ET

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - NASA will attempt on Wednesday to revive the $2 billion Hubble Space Telescope, which was idled two weeks ago by an equipment failure, officials said on Tuesday.

The breakdown of a computer needed to relay science data to Earth prompted NASA to postpone until next year a long-awaited space shuttle mission to upgrade the orbital observatory. That flight, which had been slated for liftoff on Tuesday, was rescheduled for February.

Engineers plan to send commands to the telescope early on Wednesday to switch over to a backup computer that has not even been turned on since before the telescope arrived in orbit 18 years ago.
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Shuttle astronauts plan to install two new science instruments, fix two failed cameras, and replace the telescope's batteries and gyroscopes, among other tasks.

The telescope orbits about 300 miles above the planet.
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(Editing by Jim Loney and Bill Trott)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_space_hubble

[Immanuel]

Good idea!

Rebooting election campaign to pre-primary level. It's called a do-over. I like it.

Immie

[Mr. P]

It's been 18 years already? Damn , where's the time gone!!