From: snidely.too@gmail.com   
      
   Per NASA newsconference, HST will begin operating in one-gyro mode.   
   Three gryos are dead, the three improved gyros are still operating but   
   one has been giving bad data from time to time, causing safe-mode   
   operations.  This will be kept offline as "from time to time" becomes   
   more frequent.   
      
   Hubble annual operations about $95 million.   
      
   (The improvement is in corrosion resistance.)   
      
   (Questions were asked about the proposed Polaris reboost mission)   
      
   NASA participants were Mark Clampin, director of the Astrophysics   
   Division of the Science Mission Directorate, and Patrick Crouse,   
   project manager of Hubble Space Telescope at Goddard.   About 6 minutes   
   of prepared presentation, and the remaining time, about 35 minutes, for   
   Q&A.   
      
      
   BTW, for an interview with Mark Clampin, especially looking forward to   
   the Habitable Worlds Observatory, see Dr Smethhurst's channel ...   
      
      
      
   /dps   
      
      
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