• prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    It’s still got a lot of good science left, with a decade of orbit to figure out how to get back to it for maintenance we could keep it running.

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      5 months ago

      . “One-gyro mode actually returns Hubble to consistent science operations and it allows us to keep another gyro working…for potential future use.”

      They even kept a backup.