Re: Mars Rover Not Responding
From: Uncle Al (UncleAl0_at_hate.spam.net)
Date: 01/23/04
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Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 17:24:19 -0800
"Michael N. Christoff" wrote:
>
> "This is a serious problem. This is an extremely serious anomaly," said Pete
> Theisinger Spirit project manager.
> "There is no single fault that explains all the observables."
>
> "...but Spirit was only transmitting "pseudo-noise", a random series of
> zeroes and ones in binary code and not anything the scientists could
> decipher."
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3421071.stm
NASA is renowned for its antenna failures - the Hubble space
telescope, Ulysses at Jupiter, and now their little radio-controlled
go-cart on Mars.
Uncle Al eagerly anticipates a Hummer-2 advert beginning with the $240
million pigmy brain fart that couldn't call home. Anticipating that
its working life would be less than 90 days because of dust
accumulating on its solar panels is also precious. Hey NASA, "blow
job."
One presumes the same engineering glitch is in the other rover.
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