Hubble is Back - and so is Chandra!

The Hubble Space Telescope is back in business after the operations team managed to fix a faulty gyroscope by "shaking" the telescope. And the Chandra X-Ray Observatory also returned to science operations following a glitch in one of its gyroscopes.

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[rajendrakiranbrahmaroutu]

Wow thats a super cool news that means Hubble will still be working on the uv spectrum while Webber works on the infra range ...that a super cool duo

[professornez]

This is soooo informative! Love the green backdrop

[Dr.SalvatoreVinciguerra]

Awesome video! I visit the Kennedy Space Center all the time so your explanation helps out a lot.

[StoneyCreekHeritageFarm]

Great news! Who would have thought just giving it a little shake, would make it work again? Awesome!

[ErynnWilson]

Thank you for starting off the day with some good news. Congrats on 1000 subs.

[galaxia]

Wow I'm so impressed by these engineers, well done, I'm glad Hubble is back on track!

[LegionOfWeirdos]

So basically they just shook the thing until it started working again. Old school 🙃

[GoPappyGo]

Congrats on 1 K subs. Always interesting content, thanks for sharing... watching the sky's with us.

[superIuminaI]

That's great news! Hopefully it'll stay that way for a while - Hubble, Chandra, and Webb all doing science for us at the same time would definitely be awesome, let's hope that happens : )

[eddiesmallhorn]

That is some awesome information. It amazes me that find ways to do quick fixes in space from 🌏. I am so glad that we will continue to get information from the Hubble Telescope. Congrats on 1k subs, well deserved.

[Icza]

Congratulations on 1000 subs! That's awesome and certainly well deserved. That's also such good news about Hubble and really unexpected. It's kinda funny that they fixed it by essentially shaking it around haha. It seems like it was more of a software glitch or something then if it was reading at speeds that were not possible. Hopefully whatever it was that caused it is a rare enough "bug" or issue that we won't see it again at least for a long time, and if so, just shake it around again? haha.

[DrivingMeCrazy]

That is fantastic news man! In some ways the modern technological equivalent of hitting the side of the TV, lol. Tweeted this one out man, congrats on 1000 Subscribers! Onward and of course, upward!

[RachaelPadilla]

Beautiful video! and very informative! Thanks.

[ModernDayTech]

I like to shake massively expensive technology too when it's not working. It usually does the trick.

[jamesdougan]

excellent news and video chris ... maybe they should install those belt vibrators (old style exercise machine) on each gyro on jwst as preventive maintenance is the lubricant slightly acidic where did the contaminate/ particles come from these things are assembled in clean rooms congrats on 1, 000 subs people gravitate to quality
cheers
james D

[kslakhani]

I really appreciate for providing such information not just this video but all ofem
Thank you Sir

[NoPulseForRussians]

Many thanks for the great news to wake up to today. So glad they got Hubble back to science operations. Way to go Hubble team. 🏆👏 Oh, i will pass the word along to my "science friends" that they should subscribe on YouTube. So you should be getting maybe 5 or 6 more here in the next day or so. Thanks for your great videos. I enjoy them very much.

[kevinflynn]

Great news for NASA!! Especially, since Kepler mission is now over and Mars Rover is currently silent. Thanx for the update and congrats on 1K! 👍✌

[JMFSpike]

Well, I'm certainly late to the party. I had no idea that they fixed Hubble. That's great news, but Hubble is very outdated and will have very little use once the Webb telescope is up and running. Don't get me wrong, I'm not suggesting that we should shut it down and forget about it forever. We all love the Hubble, hope it sticks around for at least another decade or two, and hope that we're able to still find some kind of use for it. I'm just saying that this isn't near as big of a deal as it would have been had this happened 10 years ago.

[askquestionstrythings]

Turn it off and back on again... if that doesn't work, hit it with a hammer (i.e. shake it a little). What works down here works up there.