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NASA fixes Hubble Space Telescope using backup power supply unit, payload computer

Antron Argaiv Silver badge
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Re: Great news....until.

...which means, of course, that they have a better replacement :-)

IIRC, one of the (formerly) top secret advances in the KH-11, was a deformable mirror to compensate for atmospheric distortion. How they figured out what the distortion was, in order to counteract it, is probably another big secret.

BRB...someone at the door...

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