By NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
November 9, 2021
Hubble drifts over Earth after its release on May 19, 2009, by the crew of the Space Shuttle Atlantis. The crew had performed all planned tasks over the course of five spacewalks, making the Servicing Mission 4 (SM4), the fifth astronaut visit to the Hubble Space Telescope, an unqualified success. Credit: NASA
The Hubble team successfully recovered the Advanced Camera for Surveys instrument on November 7. The instrument has started taking science observations once again. Hubble’s other instruments remain in safe mode while continued investigating the root cause of the synchronization issues and has seen no additional problems. The team will continue looking into possible short-term solutions this week and develop estimates for implementation. Once this occurs, the team will discuss returning the other instruments to operational status and resuming their science observations.
