Comments on: Looking Good –So Far — For Hubble

By: BadGuy1981

BadGuy1981 — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:29:30 +0000

there is a relief! Way to go! That is pretty amazing after 18 years! We are flipping to the B side!!!

By: Ayti

Ayti — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 04:00:35 +0000

unfortunately a celebration would be premature. Apparently they have encountered some new problems.

By: John Cordeiro

John Cordeiro — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 18:49:10 +0000

As an EE myself I know how difficult it can be to get the project managers and finance folks to approve the redundancy that should be included. Often you end up with so many compromises based only on the bottom line. Of course when something goes wrong the bean counters never step up!

Congrats to the folks who designed and built HST . Your efforts are greatly appreciated by all of mankind.

By: Steven

Steven — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:25:12 +0000

>> Whoah!! That's amazing, non-operational components functioning for the first time after 18 years…….wow!!

I agree with that statement. Well done to all involved.

By: Vino

Vino — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 06:23:20 +0000

Hurray to the Hubble design team for their enormous forethought of a backup system and to the engineers who made it fail-safe…..
Best wishes Hubble for more fantastic science!!!

By: Claytronic

Claytronic — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 22:50:39 +0000

Anyone know the cost of those SIC&DH units and who made them? The shear engineering feat of a redundant backup/failover computer system working after 18 years incredible. That would be horribly difficult in a modern data center much less in the harsh environment of Hubble's +300 nm orbit.

By: Molecular

Molecular — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 20:28:02 +0000

Whoah!! That's amazing, non-operational components functioning for the first time after 18 years…….wow!!

By: Don Alexander

Don Alexander — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 19:50:45 +0000

Ah, yes, all the luck to the HST team!! Would be fantastic if Side B held up and worked all the way to the repair mission.

By: Don Alexander

Don Alexander — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 19:50:05 +0000

>> Any news from Fermi?

Everything seems to be working fine. GBM is detecting lots of Gamma-Ray Bursts. LAT has also detected two. LAT has also significantly detected several active galaxies in outburst.

By: Skunkchump

Skunkchump — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 19:05:21 +0000

Good news….finally.
Very exciting.

Good luck IBEX and Chandrayaan 1 launch

It's been a good month for space science, with
2 very impressive fly-bys, a couple of new probes being launched, and a Hubble fix.

Cassini, MESSENGER, IBEX, Hubble – CONGRATS and Thank you

Any news from Fermi?

By: Sofia

Sofia — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:29:17 +0000

My best wishes too.