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That warms my heart somehow, but I thought I had read that that was it for Hubble, like a year ago? Why the change of heart? Anyone got the full story, or did I

• pkaye 5y ago
  There was some equipment failure last year. I think it was later diagnosed as a power control unit that failed. Fortunately there was a backup set they could switch to. Little by little parts are failing with time but they are nursing it along.
• croutonwagon 5y ago
  I think one of the primary payload computers failed but they were able to flip to auxiliary/backup. That was in July though It’s pretty much on borrowed time. I think they spent most of that outage trying to bring the main up and gave up. Must be fun troubleshooting something at like 400 km orbit. Heck I had to tell a lady she couldn’t wfh today because her cell data tethering wasn’t up to snuff to hold a connection to our vpn or do much of anything. She was seeing spurts of 10% loss on downstream and 200+ ms latency.
  • scottyah 5y ago
    Remembering what you did and what you wanted to do next takes a lot of notes! It's really amazing controlling the drones on Mars, with all the traffic routed through a constellation of satellites, where the rotation even affects the latency.