Hubble Telescope camera stops working

Hubble Space Telescope has encountered a problem as its main camera stopped functioning said, Ed Campi, a NASA spokesman at the Goddard Space Flight Center.

The camera that went off is a third-generation instrument and it is used as the Advanced Camera for Surveys. The camera went offline on Monday. The camera had sent messages indicating that its power supply voltages were above their upper limits. This may be a reason why it stopped working, said Campion.

He also said that the engineers at NASA are hopeful of solving the problem. He said they may use a backup, as the problem may well be with a faulty transistor. Another reason why the camera stopped working may be that there may have been a cosmic event. If that is the case, then the camera can be made operational by reloading the memory.

It was the astronauts in the Space shuttle Columbia who installed the camera on the Hubble Space telescope. The mission was in 2002 and the instrument was developed by Johns Hopkins University, Goddard Space Flight Center, Ball Aerospace and the Space Telescope Science Institute.

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