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Art Whipple—who is a Hubble systems engineer and HST Systems Management Office manager at the Goddard Space Flight Center—stated, “It is a complicated procedure and it is one we have not done end-to-end before.” [National Geographic: “NASA Hurries to Repair Hubble”]
If the procedure is successful, NASA scientists hope to have Hubble back to normal by Friday, October 17, 2008.
Whipple also stated, “Everybody will be elated to see data flowing again.” [The New York Times: “NASA Ready to Reboot Hubble”]
In the meantime, NASA has tentatively scheduled the Hubble repair mission (STS-125) for sometime early in 2009--but a specific date is still TBD (to be decided). The mission will be the fifth and final repair and servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope.
NASA still hopes to send up a duplicate data-formatting computer with the STS-125 crew. It has been stored here on Earth and will be used to replace the troublesome one on the Hubble.
NASA engineers are testing this 135-pound (61-kilogram) unit to make sure it is working order before it is sent into space with the STS-125 crew in 2009.
Additional information on the SIC&DH (SICDH), which formats and temporarily stores information on data recorders on Hubble, and then transmits such data to Earth, is found in the NASA pdf file “Science Instrument Command and Data Handling Unit.”
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