NASA reports that shortly after noon on January 8, software installed on the Wide Field Camera 3 instrument detected a signal that some voltage levels within the camera were out of a defined range.

The Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC-3) on the Hubble Space Telescope has stopped functioning due to an unspecified hardware problem. According to NASA, the camera stopped operations at 17:23 Universal Coo ...

Wide Field Camera 3, installed during Servicing Mission 4 in 2009, is equipped with redundant electronics should they be needed to recover the instrument.

HOUSTON—NASA believes it is resolving recent difficulties with the Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 and that the observatory’s primary imager could be ready to resume data ...

Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC-3) aboard NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope (HST) was reactivated over the weekend, following a low-voltage incident linked to the aging observatory’s recent lapse into ...

The Wide Field Camera 3 was installed on Hubble in May 2009 during the last servicing mission. It has taken over 240,000 observations to date and is the most used instrument of Hubble’s current ...

Hubble Space Telescope's camera eye, the Wide Field Camera 3, temporarily shuts down because of a hardware problem. It is not all bad news, however.

However, the telescope will continue to perform science observations with its other three active instruments, while the Wide Field Camera 3 anomaly is investigated, the US space agency said in a ...

While the Wide Field Camera 3 has been temporarily shut down amid technical difficulties, NASA says that the instrument is equipped with several redundancies to deal with situations akin to this one.

This is the original, flown Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) that was installed on the Hubble Space Telescope in December 1993, and removed during the last servicing mission in 2009.

This spectacular new image, taken with Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3, showcases the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), the biggest satellite galaxy of the Milky Way.

Hubble launched in 1990 with five primary instruments designed to capture images from space and transmit them back to Earth. 1. Wide Field and Planetary Camera (WFPC) This instrument was composed ...