On July 15, 2021, the Hubble operations team at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center began a complicated switch to backup spacecraft hardware in response to an ongoing problem with its payload computer, which monitors and instructs the instruments.
The spacecraft was monitored from the Space Telescope Operations Control Center’s Operations Support Room, seen here from behind the NASA operations manager station as the Hubble team proceeds with switching to backup hardware.
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System engineering manager Dan Smith discusses preparations for returning the Hubble Space Telescope spacecraft control to its main computer. The main computer that normally controls the spacecraft had to be turned off during a switch to backup hardware on July 15, 2021.
Due to an ongoing problem with Hubble's payload computer, which monitors and instructs the instruments, the operations team at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center enacted a complicated switch to backup spacecraft hardware. During the switch, the spacecraft was controlled by a special-purpose "safe mode" computer.
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System engineer Mojtaba Abedin monitors Hubble Space Telecope's pointing control system, used to turn and steady Hubble, to make sure that everything is operating properly. The main computer that normally controls the spacecraft, including its pointing, had to be turned off during a switch to backup hardware on July 15, 2021.
The Hubble operations team at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center performed the complicated switch to backup spacecraft hardware in response to an ongoing problem with the telescope's payload computer. During the switch, the spacecraft was controlled by a special-purpose safe mode computer.
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Nzinga Tull, the anomaly response manager, monitors the results as operations procedures are executed to switch the Hubble Space Telescope spacecraft to backup hardware. On July 15, 2021, the Hubble operations team at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center performed a complicated switch to backup spacecraft hardware in response to an ongoing problem with the telescope's payload computer, which monitors and instructs the instruments.
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Senior system engineers discuss a “memory dump” of the Hubble Space Telescope's main computer, in which the contents of the memory are sent to the ground to verify that everything is loaded and functioning properly, on July 15, 2021. The engineers were working on a complex switch to backup spacecraft hardware to solve to an ongoing problem with Hubble's payload computer, which monitors and instructs the instruments.
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