The recent Chandra Telescope suffered a glitch that might have taken place due to malfunctioning of the gyroscope, the US Space Agency says. Hardly a week before this incident, the Hubble Space Telescope that was sent out to space also entered the Safe Mode. NASA stated on Friday that the exact cause of the glitch is still under investigation and that this event took place around 9:55 AM EDT on the 10th of October.
While this Safe Mode is on, all the hardware is made to run on backup units; safe configurations are enabled, the spacecraft's mirrors are made to point in a direction away from The Sun, and the panels are pointed such that they get the maximum amount of sunlight.
When Chandra was initially launched in 1999, its lifetime was 5 years and got increased to a span of 10 years in the year 2001. NASA says that the telescope will continue to serve Science for a long time to come. The Space agency has also made a statement saying that they will continue to work on the Hubble Telescope's operations.
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