Hubble Advanced Camera for Surveys fails again; backup power feed off

Engineers are troubleshooting a second failure of the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) on the Hubble Space Telescope, after an apparent malfunction of the backup power feed for the instrument. The entire telescope went into a safe mode at 7:34 a.m. Eastern time Jan. 27, apparently as a result of...

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