The Government has offered Australia's three mobile operators, and vividwireless, renewal of their existing spectrum allocated on 15 year licences in the late 90s and early 2000s at set prices, while the Government expects to rake in $3 billion.
Consequently, STS-125, the 125th space shuttle flight, and its mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope is now tentatively scheduled to launch no earlier than April or May in 2009.
Space shuttle Atlantis had been on its launch pad, but was rolled back to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) on October 20, 2008.
Hubble seems to be working normally now after NASA ground controllers switched from primary Side A data relay channel to backup Side B channel within the SIC&DH computer.
Although the telescope appears to be working properly, there is now not a backup for the computer if the Side B channel decides to quit.
Consequently, NASA hopes to deliver an old-but-never-used SIC&DH computer to replace the one that is having problems onboard the Hubble.
Side A quit on September 27, 2008. Since then, NASA has switched to Side B. Initially, it did not totally work, but NASA ground controllers have been able to solve the “glitches.”
Over the past few days, NASA engineers and controllers have been able to reactivate the main science instruments.
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