NASA officials will meet Thursday to decide what to do with the Hubble Space Telescope’s main camera, which has not been working since Monday, June 19.

“We believe we are very close to fully understanding the issue experienced with the camera and we are going to resolve it,” Ed Ruitberg, associate program manager for Hubble at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, said today in a statement. “However, before we proceed with any actions, we want to have a review board meeting to assess both the trouble-shooting and the proposed solution.”

The situation, as stated today, is not much different from our story Friday. But in today’s oddly phrased statement, there is a strong hint that the solution is a done deal: “Engineers anticipate instrument observations will resume no earlier than July 3, with no degradation to performance.”
NASA will hold a media teleconference Friday morning—another suggestion that this has all been figured out—and SPACE.com will report on it.