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Hubble is not dead: a well-known telescope will still work five years

Hobble Space Telescope. Photo: wikipedia.org/NASA

Despite recent problems with one of its devices, the Hubble Space Telescope is expected to last at least five years

Launched in 1990, the space telescope is expected to continue to operate until In 2025., writes Novoe Vremya, referring to Space.com.

"At present, the reliability of all subsystems and devices exceeds 80% by 2025," said Thomas Brown, Hubble Mission Leader of the Maryland Space Telescope Science Institute.

Brown presents the results of a technical report on the reliability of the telescope. and the meeting of the American Society of Astronomy.

His assessment was made after a problem due to hardware engineers stopping work at the Hubble Wide-angle Camera on Tuesday, January 8th.

"The WFC3 will come back to science, but we want to do it with caution," Brown said.

The camera is equipped with a duplicate electronic system that can be used, but the time it will take to rebuild it is not clear. to solve the problem. Three other cameras of the Orbital Telescope continue to operate.

The report assesses the reliability of the legendary Hubble after studying the same components on Earth that have been similarly demolished. Despite this prediction, in the event of a major accident, the rapid completion of the space telescope mission is still possible

According to Brown, Hubble's orbit would remain stable until around the 2030s. this orbit will begin to change, the probe will be sent into the Earth's atmosphere where Hubble will burn.

In the summer of 2018, it was reported that the Hubble Space Telescope had received a picture of Saturn during the Earth's clash with the Earth in June of this year. favorable. In this image of Hubble, the so-called classical rings of Saturn are clearly visible and were recorded by the first researchers of the planet.

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