Computer Failure Hobbles NASA's Hubble Telescope

摘要

A computer failure onboard the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope has forced NASA to postpone this month's space shuttle Atlantis mission, which was set to do scheduled repairs on the observatory. John Shannon, shuttle program manager at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, said the flight will likely be rescheduled for next February or April, giving NASA time to prepare a replacement computer for delivery. NASA scientists announced last week that a data formatter and control unit had "totally failed" on Sept. 27. The Science Data Formatter is designed to take information from