NASA on Monday said it will delay the scheduled launch of the Atlantis space shuttle. The shuttle was scheduled to repair the Hubble space telescope on October 14. Scientists found a glitch with the telescope on Saturday night.
NASA says the data formatter on the Hubble space telescope has malfunctioned. The glitch will delay the launch of Atlantis. The problem occurred over the weekend when scientists tried to dump the payload computer memory.
By Penny Gottardi
Sep 30, 2008 13:03 PM GMT
NASA has delayed the October 14 launch of the Atlantis space shuttle, NASA news reports. National Aeronautics and Space Administration said the problem was first detected on Saturday.
"the problem was first detected after an initial attempt to reset the telescope's science data formatter. The process to dump the payload computer's memory was unsuccessful." The news article also mentioned that a team of scientists are trying to reconfigure the telescope this week. "NASA's Hubble operations team does believe it will be ready to reconfigure the telescope this week. If the team is successful, the telescope could resume operating immediately. Atlantis could then be immediately re-scheduled." NASA is also working on a back-up replacement system. Much of the details of the system were not available.
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