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The Hubble Space Telescope has been unresponsive for several days

This is certainly not the first glitch that suffers Hubble, but this time the matter seems really serious. NASA’s space telescope, in service for more than 30 years, has been stationary since Sunday, June 13. The US space agency confirmed the failure of the on-board computer last Friday, and attempts to restart were unsuccessful this weekend.

The Hubble Space Telescope was commissioned in 1990

Hubble’s concerns are said to stem from a deteriorated memory module. The space telescope is equipped with a “duplicate” backup module, but the engineers were unable to switch to this second module. Hubble down, maybe definitely, it’s an eye to the deep universe that is closing.

Hubble Quasar

One of Hubble’s most recent and incredible discoveries: in early April, Hubble detected two pairs of quasars, bright cosmic objects in galaxies with a black hole at their core. An extremely rare phenomenon: it is estimated that in the universe, there is a double quasar for a thousand “simple” quasars

Fortunately for scientists and astronomers, Hubble was soon to give way to James Webb, an even more powerful and incredibly precise space telescope, whose launch date has continued to be pushed back. It is in the fall of this year that James Webb should finally be placed in orbit 1.5 million kilometers from Earth, around the Lagrange point L2 of the Sun-Earth system *.

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* “A Lagrange point (noted L1 to L5), or, more rarely, point of libration, is a position in space where the fields of gravity of two bodies in orbital motion around each other, and of substantial masses, provide exactly the centripetal force required for this point in space to simultaneously accompany the orbital motion of the two bodies “ (source Wiki).

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