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NASA officials decided to move up part of the servicing mission that had been scheduled for June 2000 after three of the telescope`s six gyroscopes failed.

Four new gyros were installed during the first servicing mission (STS-61) in December 1993 and all six gyros were working during the second servicing mission (STS-82) in February 1997. Since then, a gyro failed in 1997, another in 1998 and a third in 1999. The Hubble team believed they understood the cause of the failures, although they could not be certain until the gyros were returned from space. Having fewer than three working gyroscopes would have precluded science observations, although the telescope would have remained safely in orbit until a servicing crew arrived.

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STS 103 (DISCOVERY) · HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE · SERVICING MISSION #3A · CLERVOY & NICOLLIER (E.S.A.)