NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, a cornerstone of astronomical research for over three decades, is transitioning to a one-gyroscope operational mode following a series of technical issues (via Gizmodo).

The Hubble Space Telescope shines in a picture taken from the Space Shuttle Discovery during Hubble's second servicing mission in 1997. The elderly Hubble Space Telescope has been on a rollercoaster ...

June 3 (UPI) --NASA's Hubble Space Telescope again has suspended operations after entering safe mode because of an ongoing gyroscope issue that has affected the craft for the past year, according to ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has taken its first new images since switching to an alternate operating mode that uses one gyroscope (gyro). The spacecraft returned to science operations on June 14th ...

Gyro-like devices are used for two different purposes in these spacecraft. One set, the gyroscopes, are used for sensing orientation. Run a gimballed gyroscope at constant speed, and the changes in ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope drifts in space in 2009. The telescope again has suspended operations after entering safe mode because of an ongoing gyroscope issue, according to NASA officials. File ...