Sentences with phrase «gyroscope failed»

(180 kilograms) of fuel left when the gyroscope failed.

Then SOHO's last gyroscope failed, forcing mission managers to develop a new way of keeping SOHO stable.

Kepler was approved far beyond its original mission length and was operating well until May 2013, when a second of its four reaction wheels or gyroscopes failed.

Not exact matches

BeppoSAX has only one gyroscope that still works, but if it fails, a clever software fix will soon allow the craft to navigate, says John Heise of the Space Research Organization Netherlands in Utrecht.

Ideally, however, a «telerobotics» approach would let mission controllers replace Hubble's aging batteries and pointing - control gyroscopes, now projected to fail by 2007, O'Keefe said.

Without proper maintenance, the gyroscopes could fail.

Since the second Servicing Mission in February 1997, three of Hubble's six gyroscopes had failed, causing some concern among NASA officials.

Two of the three gyroscopes had failed, but the rest of its instruments appeared to be fine.