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NASA To Repair Hubble By Remote Control 53

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday October 15, 2008 @08:23AM from the in-my-day-i-had-to-walk-over-and-do-it-manually dept.

Matt_dk writes "NASA says it plans to fix the Hubble Space Telescope by remote control this week. The Hubble stopped beaming information to Earth about two weeks ago, when a data unit on the telescope completely failed. Scientists on Tuesday said they will bypass the failed unit and switch to a back-up system to restart the flow of information. The computer glitch forced NASA to postpone a shuttle mission this month to repair the Hubble. That shuttle mission has been postponed until next year." Update - 10/15, 17:45 by SS: Readers have pointed out further details from Spaceflight Now and the NASA press release.

Comment Re:ICANN? (Score 2, Interesting) 159

by mikedsmith on Thursday February 12, 2004 @04:36AM (#8256454) Attached to: Verisign's SiteFinder - An Engineer's View

Well, IMHO they will lose a lot of respect and good image in some communities (i.e. SCO with the Open Source movement), but in other communities, almost none at all. For example stock traders love it, they earn bucket loads of money from it. The average Joe doesn't care and doesn't know that Verisign is ruining DNS for everyone and making money out of it.

Unfortunately companies doing bad things, often get noticed only by small pockets of people. If they don't stand up and talk, no one even bats an eyelid.

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