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NASA Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 Restored – HubbleSite

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The Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) instrument on NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope was brought back online on Saturday, March 13th at approximately 7:00 p.m. EST. The instrument was shut down as part of the normal observatory safe mode activities that occurred on Sunday, March 7, in response to a software error on the main flight computer. After starting its recovery on Thursday, March 11, WFC3 suspended the process due to a slightly lower-than-normal voltage reading for a power supply, which triggered…

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