When in doubt, reboot

Behold the power of the reboot. Just as effective in space as on earth. The malfunction lasted about 14 hours before engineers were able to jumpstart the 19-year-old Hubble by shutting the telescope off, then restarting it remotely from the telescope’s mission operations center at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. via SPACE.com [...]

Posted on June 18, 2009 at 1:40 pm by Jeff · Permalink · Leave a comment
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