Another NASA Space Telescope Shuts Down in Orbit

This illustration made available by NASA shows the Chandra X-ray Observatory on Oct. 12, 2018. NASA/CXC/SAO via AP

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—Another NASA space telescope has shut down and halted science observations.

Less than a week after the Hubble Space Telescope went offline, the Chandra X-ray Observatory did the same thing. NASA said Friday that Chandra’s automatically went into so-called safe mode on Oct. 10, possibly because of a gyroscope problem.