The Hubble Space Telescope's payload computer has been down for over a week
Hubble's payload computer is broken. NASA has spent over a week trying to fix it.
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The International Space Station (ISS) will fly over the Midwest several times this week and will awe both early morning and late night astrologers. Seven astronauts currently live on the ISS and circle the Earth once every 90 minutes. And you can see their craft shining like a twinkling light moving slowly across the night sky.
The ISS shines by reflecting sunlight, so you can spot it best just before sunrise and just after sunset (while in the dark, but high enough to still be in sunlight). Here are the ISS passes for the week – set your alarms!
Where and when to look from Cincinnati
July 12: 10:15-10:21 p.m. Face southeast and it will travel right to left.
July 13: 11:04-11:11 p.m. Face northwest and it will travel from left to right.
July 14: 5:35-5:41 am Face southwest and it will travel right to left.
July 14: 10:17-10:24 p.m The best! It will rise in the southwest, go straight overhead, and then set in the northeast.
July 15: 4:47-4:54 am It rises in the northwest, will go high and then set in the southeast.
July 15: 9:30-9:36 p.m. Face south and it will travel right to left.
ISS fun facts
The ISS is 239 feet wide, 356 feet long, 66 feet tall and weighs over 900,000 pounds.
It is the largest spaceship ever.
It orbits about 250 miles above Earth.
You can track the path of the ISS using apps like Sputnik and ISS spotter or websites like heavens-above.com.
