Hubble Space Telescope

The Hubble Space Telescope returns to orbit as an improved telescope after its second servicing mission in February 1997. Credit: NASA

NASA announced recently that it has resumed Hubble Space Telescope operations after a fifteen day outage following gyroscope issues aboard the venerable orbiting telescope. Observations on some instruments resumed December 8, and have continued for the past week, with others slated to come on line at some point in the near future.

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