NASA To Provide Update To Hubble Anomaly Status

[KSC News Center <ksc@mediaservices.nasa.gov>]

Oct. 10, 2008

George H. Diller
Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 
321-867-2468 
george.h.diller@nasa.gov  

J.D. Harrington
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-5241
j.d.harrington@nasa.gov  

Ed Campion
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 
301-286-0697
edward.s.campion@nasa.gov 

MEDIA ADVISORY: M08-200

NASA TO PROVIDE UPDATE TO HUBBLE ANOMALY STATUS

WASHINGTON -- NASA will host a media teleconference at 12:30 p.m. EDT, 
Tuesday, Oct. 14, to brief reporters about the status of efforts to 
revive the data handling unit that failed on the Hubble Space 
Telescope in late-September. The failure halted almost all science 
operations on the orbiting observatory.

A meeting will be held at NASA Headquarters on Tuesday morning to 
review plans for transitioning operations to the redundant "B" side 
of Hubble's data handling unit. This equipment has not been used or 
tested since Hubble's launch in 1990. If approved, ground controllers 
could begin the process of sending commands to Hubble as early as 
Wednesday, Oct. 15, to begin the transition. The process could take 
as long as 48 hours to complete.

The briefing participants are:
- Jon Morse, Astrophysics Division director in the Science Mission 
Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington.
- Art Whipple, manager of the Hubble Space Telescope Systems 
Management Office at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, 
Md.

To participate in the teleconference, reporters in the U.S. should 
call 1-866-556-1095 and use the pass code "Hubble." International 
reporters should call 1-212-547-0420.

Audio of the teleconference will be streamed live at:

http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio 

	
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