Yeah this is great news. Did they figure out why they lost contact in the first place?
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Topic started on 23-1-2004 @ 09:51 AM by Nerdling
After two worrisome days in the NASA control room we have learned that contacts between the agency and the probe have resumed as normally, the Mars
rover Spirit sent data Friday morning to its NASA flight team in a communications session lasting 20 minutes, the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
said. However, a serious hardware malfunction likely remains, that hampers the remainer of the mission.
The craft, Spirit, has sent back little more than beeps and sporadic data bursts since Wednesday, forcing NASA engineers to scramble for answers at an inopportune time: an identical robot ship is poised to land on the other side of Mars on Saturday night or Sunday morning.
Since Wednesday, NASA scientists had received a basic communication tone from the Spirit rover indicating it was alive, but the solid flows of data that marked its first 18 days on Mars stopped, said deputy project manager Richard Cook.
www.CNN.com
[Edited on 23-1-2004 by SkepticOverlord]
[Edited on 24-1-2004 by SkepticOverlord]
The craft, Spirit, has sent back little more than beeps and sporadic data bursts since Wednesday, forcing NASA engineers to scramble for answers at an inopportune time: an identical robot ship is poised to land on the other side of Mars on Saturday night or Sunday morning.
Since Wednesday, NASA scientists had received a basic communication tone from the Spirit rover indicating it was alive, but the solid flows of data that marked its first 18 days on Mars stopped, said deputy project manager Richard Cook.
www.CNN.com
[Edited on 23-1-2004 by SkepticOverlord]
[Edited on 24-1-2004 by SkepticOverlord]
reply posted on 23-1-2004 @ 03:07 PM by BlackJackal
Nasa now says that even though they have contact it could take weeks to fix the problem
story.news.yahoo.com.../ap/20040123/ap_on_sc/mars_rover
story.news.yahoo.com.../ap/20040123/ap_on_sc/mars_rover
reply posted on 23-1-2004 @ 08:53 PM by Tungsten
New press release timed 6:35 PM says NASA received a big burst of data at ~ noon.
Tungsten
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Shortly before noon, controllers were surprised to receive a relay of data from Spirit via the Mars Odyssey orbiter. Spirit sent 73 megabits at a rate of 128 kilobits per second. The transmission included power subsystem engineering data, no science data, and several frames of "fill data." Fill data are sets of intentionally random numbers that do not provide information.marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov... 040123d.html
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reply posted on 23-1-2004 @ 08:57 PM by TheConservative
www.space.com...
I knew that we'd regain contact with Spirit. Opportunity is now closing in fast on Mars, and will land tomorrow.
I knew that we'd regain contact with Spirit. Opportunity is now closing in fast on Mars, and will land tomorrow.
reply posted on 25-1-2004 @ 12:15 PM by Netchicken
I just read that it is the flash memory of Spirit that is screwed. It has 2 256 meg cards - like camera flash and the problem is with one of them.
By bypassing the flash cards they have partial control again.
Sorry no link - lost it here somewhere...
marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov...
By bypassing the flash cards they have partial control again.
Sorry no link - lost it here somewhere...
marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov...
reply posted on 25-1-2004 @ 12:23 PM by smirkley
I made a post in RATS under Val's NASA thread related to the flash memories. Gives a little insight, and a link to an article provided by Val.
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