The Hubble Space Telescope, which has been observing the universe for more than 30 years, has been inactive for the past few days, NASA said on Friday.
The problem is the computer that was charging the computer stopped working last Sunday, said American astronauts.
He emphasized that the telescope itself and its accompanying scientific instruments are “healthy.”
“The purpose of the loaded computer is to pay for and coordinate scientific instruments and to monitor them for health and safety purposes,” NASA said.
Attempts to restart it on Monday failed.
NASA said the first evidence points to a computer-based memory module that degrades the source of the computer problem.
An attempt to switch to the cache memory module again failed.
Paid computer technology dates back to the 1980’s, and was replaced by a repair work in 2009.
Launched in 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope transformed the world of astronomy and transformed our vision of the universe as it recaptured images of the solar system, the Milky Way and distant galaxies.
A new and more powerful one, called the James Webb Space Telescope, is scheduled for use later this year. It is designed to see deeper into space than ever before.
