Talk:Hubble Space Telescope

What languages used to program the computers on-board

Article talks about the hardware and OS (for spacecraft and instruments) - but what programming language(s) used ? C ? - Rod57 (talk) 18:55, 28 December 2021 (UTC)

FAR

Article has a lot of issues, unsourced statements and potential OR. Without improvements, it would be soon sent into FAR. 2001:4455:1A9:E100:CC56:726C:B9BE:7DA8 (talk) 12:32, 8 January 2022 (UTC)

That is a serious charge to be made and without specifics. There a few cite needed tags in article now that do need attention. -Fnlayson (talk) 22:12, 8 January 2022 (UTC)

Hi IP and Fnlayson, I'm following up on this FAR after a note on my talk page. I took a quick skim, and I'm going to note some concerns below. Are either one of you interested in addressing these concerns?

• I believe the citation needed tags are valid. I am particularly concerned that the "List of Hubble instruments" does not have any citations. I think some of these paragraphs are verified by the citation in the subsequent paragraph, but this will need to be checked.
• The article suffers from MOS:OVERSECTION, with lots of one-paragraph sections that can be merged. Some of these might be warranted, others might not be. For example, "Servicing Mission 3A" and "3B" might be merged together, with multiple hatnotes at the top of the section, "Policy" and "Proposals" might be merged in the "Public use" section, and some of the shorter sections in "Important discoveries" might be merged into a miscellaneous section or grouped together in another way. Thoughts?
• "Logsdon, John M.; Snyder, Amy Paige; Launius, Roger D.; Garber, Stephen J.; Newport, Regan Anne, eds. (2001)." is listed in the bibliography but is not used as an inline citation. Should this be used as a source or should it be removed?
• "HUBBLE INSTRUMENTS REMAIN IN SAFE MODE, NASA TEAM INVESTIGATING". Per MOS:ALLCAPS this should be converted to lowercase and this citation should be properly formatted.

Those are my thoughts after a skim. Please ping me if you have any questions or if the above are addressed. Z1720 (talk) 15:10, 3 April 2022 (UTC)

Article needs to be also updated/expanded either way when the issues above were resolved. I've left notice at the 3 wikiprojects on this highly visible article, so they'll know. 2001:4455:30B:6C00:45B7:D10F:374A:178A (talk) 13:04, 6 April 2022 (UTC)

http://69.142.160.183/~dispenser/ finds tons of weblinks that need to be checked. I took care of references 1 to 70. hubblesite.org in particular is bad, it made redirects to the main page and removed all the referenced articles. web.archive.org doesn't have these pages because it thinks the 301 redirect is sufficient. Everything from Space Telescope Science Institute is likely dead or needs at least a new URL. --mfb (talk) 07:34, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

Thanks! It looks like it'll be a bit of a slog, but manageable. The news releases from hubblesite.org seem to still be there, just in different places; other content of theirs is harder to track down. XOR'easter (talk) 16:05, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

I think between XOR and myself we've found the dodgy links and either replaced or fixed them; I just went through from 200-end. Primefac (talk) 07:25, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

@XOR'easter, Primefac, and Mfb: Thanks for your work in improving the article. I am sorry that I did not respond to this sooner. If you think the article meets the FA criteria, can you mark it as "Satisfactory" at WP:URFA/2020A? If there are still concerns, can you outline them below? Thanks, Z1720 (talk) 21:31, 14 October 2022 (UTC)

Suggestion

Can someone add that the telescope has been having a gyroscopic issue since november 23? Sebbers1010292929 (talk) 17:23, 7 December 2023 (UTC)

We would need a source to indicate it, and possibly wait until the issue has either been fixed or demonstrated to be an irreparable failure before adding. Primefac (talk) 19:01, 7 December 2023 (UTC)

Instrument shut down

What's the best place to mention that NASA plans to shut down the ACS/WFC and WFC3/IR instruments, due to budget constraints? Quote from Call for Cycle 32 Bridge Programs:

We are offering a special HST observing opportunity to the astronomy community to propose for "Bridge Programs" with ACS/WFC and WFC3/IR, in anticipation of likely operational changes in Cycle 33. Those changes are driven by the expanding gap between operating costs and funding levels, and subsequent NASA direction to reduce operating costs for HST relative to FY2023/2024 by ~10% in FY2025 and >20% in FY2026 and beyond. STScI and NASA are working to preserve Hubble’s unique capabilities, critical mission operations, and support for HST's users, but this funding scenario will result in significant impacts going forward. Specifically, we anticipate not offering ACS/WFC and WFC3/IR for new programs in the Cycle 33 Call for Proposals as well as a ramp-down in science operations support for these instruments after Cycle 32.

Renerpho (talk) 11:07, 23 November 2024 (UTC)