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On June 16, 2020, a test was conducted at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center on a new pointing mode for the observatory. Uploaded to the spacecraft only days before, the mode allows for a problematic gyroscope (a sensor used to determine which direction and how fast Hubble is turning) to be bypassed when trying to keep the spacecraft steady. Systems manager Morgan Van Arsdall monitors the process while many of her teammates monitor the spacecraft’s subsystems from home. Credits: NASA/Goddard/Rebecca Roth