The Hubble Space Telescope has lost much of its gyroscopes
Enlarge / Hubble Space Telescope above Earth, photographed during STS-125, servicing mission 4, May 2009. The venerable Hubble Space Telescope is running out of gyroscopes, and if there are none left, the instrument will cease to perform meaningful science. To preserve the telescope, which has been in space for nearly three and a half decades, … Read more