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Posted this before here. Maybe worthwhile to post again...

Fig 5-10 is the Data Management Subsystem

https://asd.gsfc.nasa.gov/archive/sm3a/downloads/sm3a_media_...

Concerning the computers:

- First they had a DF-224 flight computer and a

- Science Instrument Control and Data Handling (SI C&DH)

Initially DF-224 between missions got installed a coprocessor:

https://asd.gsfc.nasa.gov/archive/hubble/a_pdf/news/facts/Co...

During another servicing mission they replaced it with something called the Advanced Computer with Intel 80486:

https://asd.gsfc.nasa.gov/archive/hubble/a_pdf/news/facts/FS...

There are some 50,000 lines of code in the C and Assembly programming languages. https://www.nasa.gov/pdf/327688main_09_SM4_Media_Guide_rev1....

They also have a Help Desk...

"Welcome to the Hubble Space Telescope Help Desk"

https://stsci.service-now.com/hst?id=hst_index



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