Julianne at CV has the latest news
To cut a long story short, they think they know what the problem is and they're going ahead with the switch to the spare "side B" electronics.
Fine Guidance Sensor astrometry programs are contuing, and I hear that NICMOS will be warmed up and they think it will come back on when the Science Data Formatter is functioning again.
Given the delay to Cycle 17 and Servicing Mission 4, don't be surprised if there is a small mid-cycle call for proposals for NICMOS and WFPC2 science only to fill the observing schedule. I'd guess either before christmas or just after, but that is a guess.
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The Near-Infrared Camera and Multi-Objects Spectrograph on the Hubble has been resuscitated.
Damn, that means those 50 odd supplemental proposals are in the running as well as the almost three hundred WFPC2 proposals already in the queue...
The refrigerator on the infrared camera on Hubble is broken and the camera is shut down, for now.
Better hope servicing mission 4 goes off on the revised schedule and is successful.
NASAwatch reports ACS outage
Electronics problems. ACS observations suspended for a week while a tiger team studies the issue.
Ok, it is really official Space Telescope news on ACS (dynamic web page)
It is nice to hear about FGS science still ongoing.
Hopefully the Cryocooler diagnoses is correct, and we will get NICMOS back after warm up.