{"id":125062,"date":"2021-07-16T22:22:47","date_gmt":"2021-07-17T05:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/hobbled-hubble-telescope-springs-back-to-life-on-its-backup-system"},"modified":"2021-07-16T22:22:47","modified_gmt":"2021-07-17T05:22:47","slug":"hobbled-hubble-telescope-springs-back-to-life-on-its-backup-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/hobbled-hubble-telescope-springs-back-to-life-on-its-backup-system","title":{"rendered":"Hobbled Hubble Telescope Springs Back To Life On Its Backup System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hobbled-hubble-telescope-springs-back-to-life-on-its-backup-system.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was cheering in the control center\u201d when word came that NASA had brought a key computer back, says James Jeletic, the Hubble project\u2019s deputy project manager.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The Hubble Space Telescope is returning to operation more than a month after its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/06\/23\/1009567351\/hubble-trouble-nasa-cant-figure-out-whats-causing-computer-issues-on-the-telesco\">original payload computer shut down<\/a>. NASA said it has successfully switched over to its backup computer \u2014 and while the process of bringing the system back online is slow, the agency has started to bring science instruments out of \u201csafe mode.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was cheering in the control center\u201d on Thursday night when word came that NASA had managed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/goddard\/2021\/operations-underway-to-restore-payload-computer-on-nasas-hubble-space-telescope\">restore the payload computer<\/a>, James Jeletic, Hubble\u2019s deputy project manager, told NPR.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a big sense of relief,\u201d Jeletic said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThere was cheering in the control center\u201d when word came that NASA had brought a key computer back, says James Jeletic, the Hubble project\u2019s deputy project manager. The Hubble Space Telescope is returning to operation more than a month after its original payload computer shut down. NASA said it has successfully switched over to its [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}