Hubble Shifts To Two-Gyro Operations
The Hubble Space Telescope may have gained as much as eight months of useful life from a shift in operating procedures designed to preserve its fragile gyroscopes. Controllers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center have switched the telescope from three-gyro control to a mode that requires only two...
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