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ann0826 — Announcement

Hubblecast 25 Special: What’s Next?

15 December 2008: In this new Hubblecast Special episode, Dr. J guides us through the seventh chapter of Eyes on the Skies, the International Astronomical Union's movie celebrating the telescope's 400th anniversary in 2009.The Eyes on the Skies movie explores the many facets of the telescope — the historical development, the scientific importance, ...

ann0825 — Announcement

Hubblecast 24 Special: Beyond Earth

11 December 2008: In this new Hubblecast Special episode, Dr. J guides us through the sixth chapter of Eyes on the Skies, the International Astronomical Union's movie celebrating the telescope's 400th anniversary in 2009. The Eyes on the Skies movie explores the many facets of the telescope — the historical development, the scientific ...

ann0824 — Announcement

New launch date for Servicing Mission

5 December 2008: NASA officials announced Thursday that Shuttle mission STS-125 to repair the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is now scheduled for launch on 12 May 2009.The delay to the mission, from the original launch date in September, was due to the failure of a data-handling unit on the telescope. Despite a successful ...

ann0823 — Announcement

Hubblecast 23 Special: Seeing the invisible

25 November 2008: In this new Hubblecast Special episode, Dr. J guides us through the fifth chapter of Eyes on the Skies, the International Astronomical Union's movie celebrating the telescope's 400th anniversary in 2009. The Eyes on the Skies movie explores the many facets of the telescope – the historical development, the scientific ...

ann0822 — Announcement

Hubblecast 21 Special: From silver to silicon

3 November 2008: In this new Hubblecast Special episode, Dr. J guides us through the fourth chapter of Eyes on the Skies, the International Astronomical Union's movie celebrating the telescope's 400th anniversary in 2009. The Eyes on the Skies movie will be released during the autumn and winter of 2008 (further information is ...

ann0821 — Announcement

Latest plans for Hubble Servicing Mission 4

31 October 2008: NASA officials announced 30 October 2008 that the planned Hubble Servicing Mission 4, originally scheduled for late September, will at the earliest take place in May 2009. The decison comes after engineers completed an initial assessement of the work required to bring the replacement Science Instrument Command and Data Handling ...

ann0820 — Announcement

Hubble resumes science operations

27 October 2008: Science operations with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope resumed over the weekend, four weeks after a problem with the science data formatter took the spacecraft into safe mode. Reactivation of the Wide Field Planetary Camera-2 took place at around 15:00 CEST on 25 October 2008 as the science computer issued ...

ann0819 — Announcement

Green light for Hubble operations

24 October 2008: Following a week of thorough investigations as a result of two anomalies observed last week, NASA, on 23 October 2008, approved the resumption of activities to bring the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope back to science operational status. The first anomaly observed was in the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS). The ...

ann0818 — Announcement

Hubble status report

22 October 2008: Engineers at NASA continue to investigate the two anomalies which occurred during the reactivation of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope last week. Currently the focus is on assessing the ongoing risks for the activities needed to bring restore Hubble to full science capability prior to Servicing Mission 4. In the ...

ann0817 — Announcement

System anomalies take Hubble off line

18 October 2008: The process of restoring the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to operational status was temporarily put on hold due to a couple of anomalies observed on the spacecraft during reconfiguration. The first event, occurring at ~19:40 CEST, 16 October, led to a suspension in operations of the Advanced Camera for Surveys ...

ann0816 — Announcement

Hubble instruments back online

17 October 2008: Engineers at ground control spent yesterday, 16 October, activating in a planned sequence the instruments onboard the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The three primary instruments, the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) and Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS), were brought out of safe ...

ann0815 — Announcement

Bringing Hubble out of safe mode

16 October 2008: The process of restoring the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to full science operations is proceeding smoothly according to ground control teams. By about 15:30 CEST on 15 October, the control commands had successfully switched operations over to run on the back-up B-channel; and a few hours later Hubble was brought ...

ann0814 — Announcement

Restoring Hubble to health

15 October 2008: At a teleconference on 14 October 2008, NASA officials revealed the timeline for restoring the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to operational status following its entry into safe mode three weeks ago. Bringing Hubble back into operation will require the so-called Control Unit/Science Data Formatter to be switched over from its ...

ann0813 — Announcement

Hubble enters safe mode

1 October 2008: At approximately 02:00 (CEST) on Sunday September 28, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope automatically entered safe mode when errors were detected in the Control Unit/Science Data Formatter-Side A. This component is essential for the storage and transmission of data from the telescope's science instruments back to Earth. Ground control attempts ...

ann0812 — Announcement

Hubblecast 20 Special: Technology to the rescue

25 September 2008: In this new Hubblecast Special episode, Dr. J guides us through the third chapter of Eyes on the Skies, the International Astronomical Union's official movie celebrating the telescope's 400th anniversary in 2009. The Eyes on the Skies movie will be released during the autumn and winter of 2008 (further information ...

ann0811 — Announcement

Mystery object spied with Hubble

16 September 2008: Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have observed a mystery object in the constellation of Böotes. Despite detailed analysis of the light emitted by the object, astronomers are puzzled by the nature of and distance to the object known as SCP 06F6. All we know comes from a series ...

ann0810 — Announcement

Hubblecast19 Special: Bigger is better

3 September 2008: In this new Hubblecast Special episode, Dr. J guides us through the second chapter of Eyes on the Skies, the International Astronomical Union's official movie celebrating the telescope's 400th anniversary in 2009. The Eyes on the Skies movie will be released during the autumn and winter of 2008 (further information ...

ann0809 — Announcement

Hubblecast17 Special: New views of the skies

25 July 2008: In this new Hubblecast episode, Dr. J guides us through the first chapter of Eyes on the Skies, the International Astronomical Union's official movie celebrating the telescope on its 400th anniversary in 2009. The Eyes on the Skies movie will be released during the autumn/winter 2008 (further information is available ...

ann0808 — Announcement

Hubble sees stars and a stripe in celestial fireworks

1 July 2008: A delicate ribbon of gas floats eerily in our galaxy. A contrail from an alien spaceship A jet from a black hole? Actually this image, taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, is a very thin section of a supernova remnant caused by a stellar explosion that occurred more than ...

ann0807 — Announcement

Proceedings of Communicating Astronomy with the Public 2007

26 May 2008: The conference Communicating Astronomy with the Public 2007 was held in Athens, Greece, from 8 to 11 October 2007. It aimed to bring together the producers of astronomical information (research scientists), public information officers (connected with large observatories and space missions), and mediators (science reporters and writers, staff members from ...

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