Hubble Ready To Restart Observations After Backup Switch

Controllers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center are calibrating the Hubble Space Telescope’s instruments to begin making observations again Oct. 17, after switching the orbiting observatory’s Science Instrument Control and Data Handling system to its backup “B” side. The calibration involves...

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