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Published on Oct 8, 2018.

Bad news I’m afraid for the venerable Hubble Space Telescope. Project Scientists tweeted earlier today that Hubble has been placed in safe mode as two of it’s critical gyros used for pointing have failed. As sad as it is, it appears that the clock is ticking on this 28 year old masterpiece.

 

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