{"id":83937,"date":"2018-10-24T21:45:06","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T04:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/nasa-engineers-basically-jiggled-the-hubble-telescope-to-fix-its-recent-problem"},"modified":"2018-10-25T15:08:08","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T22:08:08","slug":"nasa-engineers-basically-jiggled-the-hubble-telescope-to-fix-its-recent-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/nasa-engineers-basically-jiggled-the-hubble-telescope-to-fix-its-recent-problem","title":{"rendered":"NASA Engineers Basically Jiggled The Hubble Telescope to Fix Its Recent Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-engineers-basically-jiggled-the-hubble-telescope-to-fix-its-recent-problem2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After a gyroscope failure put the Hubble Space Telescope out of action on October 5, NASA engineers finally see an end to its troubles. They have its backup gyroscope operating within a normal range and expect science operations to resume imminently.<\/p>\n<p>The space telescope entered a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/hubble-space-telescope-safe-mode-science-suspended-gyroscope-failure\">low-power safe mode<\/a> in early October, suspending science operations while engineers here on Earth diagnosed, then attempted to fix the problem.<\/p>\n<p>At maximum efficiency, Hubble uses three <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spacetelescope.org\/about\/general\/gyroscopes\/\">gyroscopes<\/a> for orienting itself to observe a target in the sky. These gyros measure the speed at which the telescope turns, so that it can be aimed accurately.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/hubble-space-telescope-gyroscope-gyro-operating-normal-range-resume-science\">https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/hubble-space-telescope-gyroscop...me-science<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a gyroscope failure put the Hubble Space Telescope out of action on October 5, NASA engineers finally see an end to its troubles. They have its backup gyroscope operating within a normal range and expect science operations to resume imminently. The space telescope entered a low-power safe mode in early October, suspending science operations [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83937","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83995,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83937\/revisions\/83995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}