NASA Begins Switch to Backup Spacecraft Hardware

On July 15, 2021, the Hubble operations team at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center began a complicated switch to backup spacecraft hardware in response to an ongoing problem with its payload computer, which monitors and instructs the instruments. The spacecraft was monitored from the Space Telescope Operations Control Center’s Operations Support Room, seen here from behind the NASA operations manager station as the Hubble team proceeds with switching to backup hardware. For more information about this story, visit: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/hubble-returns-to-full-science-observations-and-releases-new-images For a day-by-day summary of this story, visit: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/operations-underway-to-restore-payload-computer-on-nasas-hubble-space-telescope