Hubble orbiting the earth as the sun rises. Credit: M. Kornmesser (ESA/Hubble).
NASAs Hubble Space Telescope team recuperated the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph on Monday, December 6, and is now running with all 4 active instruments collecting science. The team has actually still not identified any additional synchronization message problems since keeping track of started November 1.
If they come across a number of lost synchronization messages in the future, the group will continue work on establishing and evaluating changes to instrument software that would allow them to carry out science operations even. The first of these modifications is set up to be set up on the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph in mid-December. The other instruments will receive comparable updates in the coming months.
Hubble has been running now for over 31 years, collecting ground-breaking science observations that have actually changed our basic understanding of deep space. With the launch of the Webb Telescope prepared for later on this month, NASA anticipates the 2 observatories will collaborate well into this years, broadening our knowledge of the cosmos even further.
By NASA
December 7, 2021
