Oct 24

NASA says Chandra X-ray Observatory is back to normal

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Earlier this month, NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory experienced an issue that sent it into safe mode, this following the agency’s Hubble issue. Officials confirmed on October 15 that a gyroscope “glitch” had caused the problem, saying that the issue resulted in three seconds of “bad data” causing the wrong spacecraft momentum to be calculated. That incorrectly calculated spacecraft momentum resulted … Continue reading

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