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2021-06-19 -Obits-

1980s computer of 1974 technology on Hubble might be toast!

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Posted by 3dc 2021-06-19 02:14|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

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BTW: Hubble was based on KH-11+ technology.
Look up the Key Hole Spy Sat program , around since the 70's or Google Maps Sat view and utter the word "What Privacy?"

Posted by NN2N1 2021-06-19 06:21|| 2021-06-19 06:21|| Front Page Top

#2 Gee..if we only had a re-usable space plane to say go there and fix it. Or if we actually a National Air and Space Admin that cared about Air and Space rather than systemic racism and woke politics..too much to ask for these days..

Posted by Warthog 2021-06-19 07:15|| 2021-06-19 07:15|| Front Page Top

#3 /\ WOKEandan priorities take precedence in government, but you knew that.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-06-19 07:17|| 2021-06-19 07:17|| Front Page Top

#4 There's an interesting (for computer geeks) video about the computers on Voyager titled something like "15,000 days of uptime". Hubble hasn't spent that much time in space, but it uses much more advanced computers than Voyager.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2021-06-19 08:39|| 2021-06-19 08:39|| Front Page Top

#5 but it uses much more advanced computers than Voyager.

Which is still working.

Posted by Skidmark 2021-06-19 08:49|| 2021-06-19 08:49|| Front Page Top

#6 I am sure many of the hardware components are hard to find after 4.5 decades.

Posted by Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 2021-06-19 09:13|| 2021-06-19 09:13|| Front Page Top

#7 It's orbit will decay to re-entry in about a decade. It's been serviced several times over its life, both repairs and upgrades. No surprise an antique computer would fail. The James Webb telescope is scheduled to launch sometime this year, I think.

Posted by Glenmore 2021-06-19 11:59|| 2021-06-19 11:59|| Front Page Top

#8 The trick is finding an astronaut old enough to know how to properly remove the cartridge and blow on it, then corrected joggle the power switch just right.

*raises hand*

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-06-19 13:57|| 2021-06-19 13:57|| Front Page Top

#9 ^^^^

All the above sound good...really
but maybe if you plugged in an ~~Android~~
errr Apple (given the bad press about Android today)
and activated the app...
Hubble might run again...

Posted by Clatle Johnson6602 2021-06-19 14:30|| 2021-06-19 14:30|| Front Page Top

#10 Check out EBAY for parts.

Posted by CrazyFool 2021-06-19 14:59|| 2021-06-19 14:59|| Front Page Top

#11 ^^^
Cool 😎 Commodore 64 parts it is...

"Houston, we have a solution on a fix for Hubble
and it only took a CrazyFool to get us there"

Posted by Bill the Weasel5085 2021-06-19 15:34|| 2021-06-19 15:34|| Front Page Top

#12 #8 The trick is finding an astronaut old enough to know how to properly remove the cartridge...

[raises hand]

But I advise whacking it on the side too.

Posted by Dron66046 2021-06-19 15:48|| 2021-06-19 15:48|| Front Page Top

#13 ^^--- Emergency Repair Procedures:

Step 1: Kick it!

Step 2: Kick it HARD!

Posted by CrazyFool 2021-06-19 16:44|| 2021-06-19 16:44|| Front Page Top

#14 Commodore 64 parts it is...

Pre Commodore. Magnetic plated wire memory.
The computer had 18 bits of core memory or plated wire memory; up to 64 k.

Think 1970's and '70's Univac computers.

Posted by Ebbaimp Phaitle6006 2021-06-19 19:56|| 2021-06-19 19:56|| Front Page Top

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