Hubble loses another gyro and goes into safe hold

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope lost another gyroscope Saturday morning, automatically sending the big orbiting observatory into a safe hold and shutting off all science until the Space Shuttle Discovery arrives next month with replacement gyros and other hardware. With only two of its six gyros...

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