Surely, it can take pics during this time with suboptimal cooling.
Probably hard to resist the temptation:)
There might be good engineering reasons to experiment early, like testing comms systems etc
Probably hard to resist the temptation:)
There might be good engineering reasons to experiment early, like testing comms systems etc
Here is first technical image from Hubble, before its mirror's flaw was discovered: https://stsci-opo.org/STScI-01EVTBEME0059ASGX8X3DFWZMX.jpg