[Chaos-l] Main Imaging camera is off line on HST

[jeffrey.2.cohn at gsk.com]

Here is a link to this story on Space.com:

http://www.space.com/news/060623_hubble_acs.html

Jeffrey Cohn Ph.D.
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"Robert Nielsen" <robertnielsen at nc.rr.com> 
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Re: [Chaos-l] Main Imaging camera is off line on HST






Jayme,

I read that they really didn't know exactly what was wrong yet.   It 
could be some cosmic ray hit the memory chips and brought it offline 
... in which case reloading the memory would fix it.   It could be a 
faulty transistor, in which case (and yes, I was amazed when I read 
this) they said using a backup would fix it.   Or it could be 
something serious.   I hadn't seen a definitive statement concerning 
the analysis yet.

Robert

At 6/26/2006  09:39 AM, you wrote:
>I read in the paper that the main camera on HST is of off line and the
>engineers are trying to restart it. Has any one gotten any other new?
>
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>Jayme Hanzak
>Special Projects Engineer
>jhanzak at unctv.org
>www.unctv.org
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