The Hubble Space Telescope will begin to be rebooted by the NASA engineers from Wednesday, since they have found the cause, which was responsible for it to shut down two weeks ago, reported the space agency on Tuesday. 

Art Whipple, manager of the Hubble Space Telescope Systems Management Office at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md, confirmed that by Friday morning, this telescope should be able to resume its normal science. 

On Tuesday, Whipple had a telephonic news conference with the reporters, where he revealed that everyone would be more than happy to once again see the data flowing in. 

After a router failed to format data, that helps relay it to the ground, the telescope itself went into the safe mode and since then the orbiting eye has been out of commission. It all happened at the end of September. 

Though the device has a backup channel, in order to activate it, the engineers will have had to activate the backup or "B" channels in other components of the observatory. The problem was that none of them were turned on since the telescope was launched in 1990. So until the engineers were sure that it is safe to turn them back on, they wanted to wait. 

Just before the two weeks, when astronauts were all geared up to blast off in the space shuttle Atlantis, this mishap occurred. Following this, the mission was postponed till at least February 2009, while NASA decided to repair and fix the problem that had almost put a full stop on the Hubble mission.