Hubble revives

Switch to a backup system is successful

NASA engineers late on October 15 successfully rebooted the Hubble Space Telescope, which has been silent since September 27, when a unit that formats data so it can be relayed to Earth suddenly failed.

MONITORING PLAN B Engineers at the Space Telescope Operations Control Center at NASA-Goddard monitor results as commands are relayed to switch the Hubble Space Telescope to a backup system.