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This image of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope was taken on May 19, 2009 after deployment during Servicing Mission 4.
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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope entered safe mode May 24 due to an ongoing gyroscope (gyro) issue, suspending science operations. Hubble's instruments are stable, and the telescope is in good health.
The telescope automatically entered safe mode when one of its three gyroscopes gave faulty telemetry readings. Hubble's gyros measure the telescope's slew rates and are part of the system that determines and controls precisely the direction the telescope is pointed
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