Nasa's Hubble Space Telescope which came into being in 1990, went into a protective safe mode on Friday (5th Oct) for a considerable time period as it's another gyro got failed.
The gyro is responsible for keeping the telescope precisely pointed for long periods. Rachel Osten (Hubble's deputy mission head at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore), confirmed the news of the Hubble's gyro failure. It is a stressing circumstance for the experts but they are trying their best to cope up with the issues.
Now the next mandatory task is to bring the last failed gyro online. A servicing mission took place with the help of astronauts on May 2009 with the aim of replacement of all the six gyroscopes of the Hubble Telescope and so was done. To maintain the optimal efficiency of the telescope, three gyroscopes are needed but that number turns down to two if the problem-creating gyro would unable to be back online. The team members accepted that they knew about it as they already had an approximation of the service life of that gyro.
Hubble is not the only equipment which is facing the technical ups and downs. NASA's Opportunity Mars Rover has also not made any glance since June 10, as an intense dust storm blocked much of the sunlight from reaching to the Rover's solar-powered battery.
he storm got over and the Opportunity team members recently made the attempts to hail the six wheeled Robot which has been observing the Red Planet since Jan 2004.
Curiosity also came forward with some problems in its main brain after which it is switched to its backup computer.
Kepler Space Telescope which is know for discovering 70 percent of the confirmed 3,800 exoplanets to date is also running out of fuel and thus the experts came with the conclusion to shut it off in order to save the propellant for the orientation of the robot back to the earth and reflect it's conserved data.
NASA's Dawn Spacecraft which came into being in March 2015 is also lacking the fuel. It was launched with the target of keeping an eye on the dwarf planets Ceres. It's mission is expected to be completed by the end of this month.
The gyro is responsible for keeping the telescope precisely pointed for long periods. Rachel Osten (Hubble's deputy mission head at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore), confirmed the news of the Hubble's gyro failure. It is a stressing circumstance for the experts but they are trying their best to cope up with the issues.
Now the next mandatory task is to bring the last failed gyro online. A servicing mission took place with the help of astronauts on May 2009 with the aim of replacement of all the six gyroscopes of the Hubble Telescope and so was done. To maintain the optimal efficiency of the telescope, three gyroscopes are needed but that number turns down to two if the problem-creating gyro would unable to be back online. The team members accepted that they knew about it as they already had an approximation of the service life of that gyro.
Hubble is not the only equipment which is facing the technical ups and downs. NASA's Opportunity Mars Rover has also not made any glance since June 10, as an intense dust storm blocked much of the sunlight from reaching to the Rover's solar-powered battery.
he storm got over and the Opportunity team members recently made the attempts to hail the six wheeled Robot which has been observing the Red Planet since Jan 2004.
Curiosity also came forward with some problems in its main brain after which it is switched to its backup computer.
Kepler Space Telescope which is know for discovering 70 percent of the confirmed 3,800 exoplanets to date is also running out of fuel and thus the experts came with the conclusion to shut it off in order to save the propellant for the orientation of the robot back to the earth and reflect it's conserved data.
NASA's Dawn Spacecraft which came into being in March 2015 is also lacking the fuel. It was launched with the target of keeping an eye on the dwarf planets Ceres. It's mission is expected to be completed by the end of this month.
