We’ll get an update about NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope tomorrow (June 4), and it could be a pretty big deal.On June 3, the agency announced that the Hubble Space Telescope team will be holding a press conference about the observatory’s status tomorrow at 4:00 p.m. EDT (2000 GMT). Specifically, officials said the point of this meeting will be to “provide an update on operations” for the telescope. Sounds routine, right? Well, not necessarily. The Hubble Telescope team doesn’t often hold press conferences like this — especially one with only two presenters, both of whom sport rather lofty titles.Mark Clampin, director of the agency’s Astrophysics Division and Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters, will be speaking, as will Patrick Crouse, Hubble’s project manager at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland.Related: A billionaire hopes to upgrade the Hubble Telescope on a private SpaceX mission, but could it really happen?The news comes three days after NASA announced Hubble went into automatic safe mode due to faulty readings coming from one of its final three working gyroscopes, which are devices that help scientists make sure the telescope is pointing in the correct direction. Since it launched in 1990, Hubble has gone through a bunch of gyroscopes, including some replacements. Now, it’s left with three.Before you get too worried: Yes, that may seem like a terrible combination of facts in isolation. However, there’s some context within which to place them — context that offers hope Hubble isn’t done with its duties yet.First of all, in its release about the upcoming conference, NASA said something that agency officials have reiterated time and again: “NASA anticipates Hubble will continue making discoveries, working with other observatories such as the agency’s James Webb Space Telescope, throughout this decade and into the next.”This is a sentiment that’s been shared during prior gyroscope issues Hubble has faced as well, including earlier this year and late last year; the latter incident actually involved a short string of complications that were all remedied. Yet, neither required a conference to update the public about Hubble being back at it. Online announcements sufficed.That brings us to th …
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[mwai_chat context=”Let’s have a discussion about this article:nnWe’ll get an update about NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope tomorrow (June 4), and it could be a pretty big deal.On June 3, the agency announced that the Hubble Space Telescope team will be holding a press conference about the observatory’s status tomorrow at 4:00 p.m. EDT (2000 GMT). Specifically, officials said the point of this meeting will be to “provide an update on operations” for the telescope. Sounds routine, right? Well, not necessarily. The Hubble Telescope team doesn’t often hold press conferences like this — especially one with only two presenters, both of whom sport rather lofty titles.Mark Clampin, director of the agency’s Astrophysics Division and Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters, will be speaking, as will Patrick Crouse, Hubble’s project manager at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland.Related: A billionaire hopes to upgrade the Hubble Telescope on a private SpaceX mission, but could it really happen?The news comes three days after NASA announced Hubble went into automatic safe mode due to faulty readings coming from one of its final three working gyroscopes, which are devices that help scientists make sure the telescope is pointing in the correct direction. Since it launched in 1990, Hubble has gone through a bunch of gyroscopes, including some replacements. Now, it’s left with three.Before you get too worried: Yes, that may seem like a terrible combination of facts in isolation. However, there’s some context within which to place them — context that offers hope Hubble isn’t done with its duties yet.First of all, in its release about the upcoming conference, NASA said something that agency officials have reiterated time and again: “NASA anticipates Hubble will continue making discoveries, working with other observatories such as the agency’s James Webb Space Telescope, throughout this decade and into the next.”This is a sentiment that’s been shared during prior gyroscope issues Hubble has faced as well, including earlier this year and late last year; the latter incident actually involved a short string of complications that were all remedied. Yet, neither required a conference to update the public about Hubble being back at it. Online announcements sufficed.That brings us to th …nnDiscussion:nn” ai_name=”RocketNews AI: ” start_sentence=”Can I tell you more about this article?” text_input_placeholder=”Type ‘Yes'”]
