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the Hubble Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) suspended after suffering a failed command echo check between the Control Section of the STIS Main Electronics Box (MEB) and the Multi-Anode Micro-channel Array (MAMA) Control Electronics .
"Accordingly, it is now believed that STIS’s mechanism functions are inoperable and unrecoverable. Because STIS has been single-string in its electronics since May 2001, it can no longer be used for science observations."
This vital instrument, however, remains in Suspend mode, and some imaging can still be done with the remaining instruments.
