SPACE.com: The Hubble Space Telescope appears to be working well after NASA put the 19-year-old observatory through a battery of tests after its final service mission by an astronaut repair crew.
Ed Weiler, NASA's science missions chief, said to reporters at a press conference that Hubble is in the midst of meticulous systems and calibration checks following the successful upgrades and repairs by Atlantis shuttle astronauts.
"All of those have gone beautifully," said Weiler. "Everything is going well, as far as I can tell."
The calibrations and electronics tests should run their course by the end of summer, with a new and improved Hubble once more ready for science observations in late August, Weiler said.
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