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Posted by tourdemars to Mars Exploration Rovers at May 17, 2004 10:17 PM
In the midst of its extended mission on Mars, NASA's Spirit rover ran into a software glitch over the weekend and rebooted itself, mission managers said Monday. The anomaly represented the first software reset since Spirit froze up early in its mission. This time, however, the consequences were not nearly as serious.TrackBack URL for this entry:
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No wonder Nasa can not get the moneies that it will need to carry out the vision.
"NASA's finances in disarray; auditor quits
Former auditor blasts breakdown in financial controls. As NASA sets course for the moon and Mars, the space agency's finances are in disarray, with significant errors in its last financial statements and inadequate documentation for $565 billion posted to its accounts, its former auditor reported."
Article on msnbc site,
Posted by: Harold LaValley at May 18, 2004 09:39 AM
Why is there so many software glitches? Sometimes I suspect that they are using Windows. But in that case the probes would have propably never even gotten to Mars...
Posted by: Niolator at May 18, 2004 10:26 AM
Niolator, many of the glitches are human in nature. One was due to fluxuating bit rate differences. Some have been due to communication errors between the relaying satellites.
Posted by: Zach at May 18, 2004 10:29 AM
Zach: I see from the side bar that space adventures has brokered another batch of seats on the soyuz. They still have one flight left out of the last ones. At 20 million or so it may be a rough ride but if I had it I would do it.
Posted by: Harold LaValley at May 18, 2004 10:46 AM