The Hubble Space Telescope has lost most of its gyroscopes
Larger / Hubble Space Telescope on Earth, photographed during STS-125, Shuttle Mission 4, May 2009. The venerable Hubble Space Telescope is running out of gyroscopes, and when there are none left, the instrument will cease to perform meaningful science. To preserve the telescope, which has operated in space for nearly three and a half decades, … Read more