NASA recovers Hubble Space Telescope control for science operations NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has been recovered to an operational status. The collection of science data will now resume, confirms the U.S. space agency. Its payload computer first experienced a problem back on 13 June, and the instruments were then placed in a safe configuration and science operations suspended. Since July 15, the spacecraft has been switched to backup hardware. Nasa describes the success of the switch as follows: The switch included bringing online the backup Power Control Unit (PCU) and the backup Comma...