The Hubble Space Telescope is one of the most important tools in astronomy, but it’s been having some computer issues lately.
On January 8th, 2019, the Hubble Space Telescope went into safe mode after one of its computers failed. This was the latest in a series of computer problems that have been plaguing the telescope for the past few years.
In order to fix the computer, the Hubble team had to send up a new one, and it took them a few weeks to do that. They had to make sure that the new computer was compatible with the telescope’s …