Re: Mars Rover Not Responding
From: Michael N. Christoff (mchristoff_at_sympatico.caREMOVETHIS)
Date: 01/27/04
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Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 04:21:10 -0500
"Uncle Al" <UncleAl0@hate.spam.net> wrote in message
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> "Jan C. Vorbrüggen" wrote:
> >
> > > NASA is renowned for its antenna failures - the Hubble space
> > > telescope,
> >
> > HST didn't and doesn't have antenna problems.
>
> It sure as Hell did. When they got it up there NASA discovered that
> the high gain antenna feed cable intersected space swept out by the
> high gain antenna. The technical term for this is "pookie pookie."
>
> > > Ulysses at Jupiter
> >
> > That one is going 'round the sun, and has had no problems of the sort.
>
> The Jupiter orbiter could never deploy its high gain antenna. While
> NASA spurted all over the Media for years, data was being received at
> a rate recalling Radio Shack computers and their modems. Only a very
> small fraction of the collected data was ever relayed. What a
> successful mission.
>
> > > and now their little radio-controlled go-cart on Mars.
> >
> > ...which isn't having an antenna problem, either.
>
> No. It turns out $240 million won't custom-build a NASA FlashRAM card
> as good as one can purchase at Radio Shack.
Actually, it apparently was not the flash ram, but the particular software
that accessed the flash ram. Thats why they think they can fix it by
sending a software patch.
l8r, Mike N. Christoff
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