Hubble begins life-extending 'two-gyro' science operations

NASA shut down one of the Hubble Space Telescope's three remaining operational gyroscopes this week, putting the observatory into a "two-gyro" mode to preserve the third gyro and hopefully extend Hubble's operations through mid-2008. Hubble previously required three operational gyroscopes to...

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