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DATE: TUESDAY, June 12, 1990                   TAG: 9006120202
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

VIBRATION STILL PLAGUES NASA SPACE TELESCOPE

Nearly seven weeks after its launch, the Hubble Space Telescope still vibrates each time it passes from day to night and night to day.

It also loses its electronic memory whenever it moves over a region known as the South Atlantic Anomaly.

The problems can be overcome, Jean Olivier, one of NASA's top telescope engineers, said Monday.

The vibration of the giant solar arrays, which convert sunlight into electricity, has been plaguing engineers as they go through a painstaking eight-month checkout and calibration period. The telescope was put into orbit by astronauts on the space shuttle Discovery April 25.

- Associated Press

by CNB