A man scratches his head in thought while holding a land line phone receiver in one hand and analyzing data on a screen in the Hubble control center.

Hubble Operations Pointing Mode Test

Larry Stake, a member of the Flight Operations Team, scrutinizes data while helping test a new way of pointing the Hubble Space Telescope on June 16, 2020. The adjustment let Hubble bypass a problematic gyroscope, a sensor used to determine which direction and how fast Hubble is turning.

Credits: NASA Goddard / R. Roth