NASA engineers bring Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 back to operations mode

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Resetting the telemetry circuits and associated boards brought the instrument back to operations mode

The Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC-3) installed on the Hubble Space Telescope is expected to soon resume operations, according to NASA. On 15 January, NASA engineers brought the instrument back to its...

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