[FPSPACE] FW: Hubble Status Update - Oct. 15 @ 3:30 p.m.

[LARRY KLAES]

>From: "Campion, Edward S. (GSFC-130.0)" <Edward.S.Campion at nasa.gov>
>Reply-To: "Campion, Edward S. (GSFC-130.0)" <Edward.S.Campion at nasa.gov>
>To: <gsfc_news at listserv.gsfc.nasa.gov>
>Subject: Hubble Status Update - Oct. 15 @ 3:30 p.m.
>Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:38:09 -0500
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>Susan Hendrix / Ed Campion
>Oct. 15, 2008
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>Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.                 3:30 p.m.
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>301-286-7745 / 0697
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>HUBBLE STATUS UPDATE #1
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>The Hubble Space Telescope team completed switching the required
>hardware modules to their B-sides about 9:30 a.m. this morning and
>received telemetry that verified they had good data.  Everything at this
>point looks good.
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>The 486 computer on Hubble was reloaded with data around Noon and
>successfully performed a data dump back to the ground to verify all the
>loads were proper. At 1:10 p.m. this afternoon the team brought Hubble
>out of safe mode and placed the 486 computer back in control.  Late this
>afternoon, Gyro #4 (which was needed for safe mode) will be turned off.
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>The team will reconfigure Side B of the Science Instrument Command &Data
>Handling (SIC & DH) computer later today and verify it is functioning
>properly.
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>Around 6 p.m. this evening the spacecraft will begin executing a
>pre-science command load, which involves sending normal commands to
>control the spacecraft and resume communications satellite tracking with
>the HST high gain antennas.
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>"We won't know if we've been completely successful until around midnight
>Wednesday when we demonstrate that the SI C&DH Side B is talking to the
>instruments and able to pass data to the ground," said HST Operations
>Deputy Project Manager Keith Kalinowski at NASA's Goddard Space Flight
>Center in Greenbelt, Md.
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