Reply to post: Calibration?

Hubble Space Telescope one of 16 suffering data-scrambling sensor error

Cynic_999

Calibration?

I'm quite amazed that this was not discovered when the original prototypes underwent calibration and testing.

However, as the cause of the hardware bug is known and is presumably consistent, it may be possible to apply an adjustment so that the collected data can be corrected.

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