In this image released by NASA, the space shuttle Atlantis stands on pad 39A (bottom) and space shuttle Endeavour stands on pad 39B September 20, 2008. NASA on Monday delayed the upcoming launch of the Atlantis space shuttle to allow time to repair a "significant anomaly" that occurred at the weekend on the Hubble space telescope.(Xinhua/AFP Photo) Photo Gallery>>>

Space shuttle Atlantis(left), and space shuttle Endeavour stand ready in front of an early morning rainbow at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Saturday, Sept. 20, 2008. (Xinhua/AFP Photo) Photo Gallery>>>

Hubble suffers serious failure, servicing mission delayed

    WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 (Xinhua) -- NASA announced on Monday that a serious equipment failure aboard Hubble is preventing it from sending data to Earth and NASA has to replan its last servicing mission to the space telescope, which was originally scheduled in early October.

    The glitch popped up late Saturday in one of two sides of a device known as a Control Unit/Science Data Formatter that is responsible for sending data.

    The hardware failed and it's unrecoverable, according to NASA. And now, Hubble flight controllers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center is trying to switch to the backup Side B to regain data relay capabilities.  Full story