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The newest, most high-tech camera on the Hubble space telescope stopped working last weekend and two of its main capabilities - gaining ultra-deep views of the universe and detailed data on individual stars - are unlikely to recover, Nasa officials said yesterday.
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The newest, most high-tech camera on the Hubble space telescope stopped working last weekend and two of its main capabilities - gaining ultra-deep views of the universe and detailed data on individual stars - are unlikely to recover, Nasa officials said yesterday.
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The Hubble Space Telescope’s main camera, the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), stopped working over the weekend, forcing the aging observatory to rely on backup instruments, NASA said on Monday.
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The newest, most sophisticated camera aboard the Hubble Space Telescope has stopped working and two of its main capabilities are unlikely to recover, the US space agency says. The telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), meant to take images of huge swaths of the sky, shut down after an electrical short caused a power fuse to fail, says NASA's Preston Burch. The whole orbiting observatory went into a protective "safe mode" on Saturday, then returned to regular operation on Sunday.
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Astronomers are calling the malfunction of the Advanced Camera for Surveys a "great loss" as it has taken the clearest pictures yet of the Universe. US space agency engineers said only one-third of the camera's functions were likely to be restored. Hubble is due to receive a new camera during a planned servicing mission by space shuttle in 2008.
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Astronauts should try to repair the main camera on the Hubble Space Telescope in the shuttle servicing mission set for next year, say some scientists involved with the Advanced Camera for Surveys, which failed on Saturday.
