Russia’s only space telescope Spektr-R has stopped responding to commands of Roscosmos space agency’s engineers. The telescope consists
It seems NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is not the only one which has been malfunctioning. Russia’s only space telescope,the Spektr-R, has stopped responding to commands from Roscosmos engineers.
The BBC reports that not many details were disclosed, but on Jan. 10, Russia’s only space telescope stopped receiving commands from Earth. However, even though the telescope no longer receives data from the Russian space agency, it still transmits.
Roscosmos first encountered problems with the telescope’s communication systems on Jan. 10. The space agency found that the device was unable to point at specific targets. Experts from the space agency attempted to restore the telescope’s communication system, but without success so far. Roscosmos has now announced that despite all attempts, “it was not possible to reconnect with the radio telescope.
