NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory launched in 1999, observing the X-Ray light from the heated gases in the Universe. Chandra X-Ray has operated for almost Two decades. NASA’s Chandra observatory is operated to observe exploding stars, light from the high heated materials near a black hole. The telescope is attributed to many discoveries, helping scientist to explore more about the origin of dark matter and unseen materials in the Universe.
NASA’s Chandra telescope has resumed from a glitch caused by one of the orientation-maintaining gyroscopes. Chandra, 19 years old Observatory, named after Indian American Astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, back into safe mode on 10 October 2018, NASA announced it’s safe mode on October 15. One of the gyroscopes was on the fritz resulting in 3 seconds worth of bad data, lead the calculations and values to go wrong.
Interestingly, NASA space team plans to swap gyroscopes and place the gyroscope that once on fritz in reverse. NASA officials released a statement today stating, "Once configured with a series of pre-tested flight software patches; the team will return Chandra to science operations, which are expected to commence by next week."
On the other hand, NASA’s Hubble, planet-hunting Kepler space telescope, and Dawn spacecraft almost facing the glitches with their gyros. Space team is trying to solve the issues and back up the gyro.
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