Hubble Telescope camera breaks – and US shutdown might delay repair

New Scientist

Image: Hubble Space Telescope / ESA

Hubble has a problem. NASA says that one of the cameras on the almost 30-year-old space telescope – the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) – is no longer operational because of a hardware problem.

Reports suggest that fixing the fault might be made more difficult by the ongoing US government shutdown, because some of the key governmental employees who will be needed to troubleshoot the problem are currently forbidden from working. Read more on newscientist.com…