UPDATE: NASA loses communication with ISS -connection restored-, page 1

NASA loses communication with ISS

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According to the space agency, flight controllers in Houston were updating software onboard the ISS' flight computers around 9:45 a.m. Tuesday when one of the station's data relay systems malfunctioned.

The primary computer controlling critical station functions defaulted to a backup computer, which is not allowing the station to communicate with NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellites.

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Originally posted by ExPostFacto
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Communication restored to the ISS

Not sure if this has been posted yet, but I have yet to see it come up in the 'new' posts list... It seems NASA can't communicate with the the International Space Station. Article continues to state that it lost communication as the ISS was flying over Russian ground stations, I have a feeling the international blame game may run rampant pretty soon here... thoughts?

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edit on 19-2-2013 by Rodinus because: post removed as my sense of humour was not appreciated (and against T and C concerning one line responses)

One Line / Short Response - read me

welcome to WW3

One Line / Short Responses - Read Me

The primary computer controlling critical station functions defaulted to a backup computer,

Windows sucks ass...



One Line /Short Responses - Read Me

edit on 19-2-2013 by elevatedone because: (no reason given)

Originally posted by Vasa Croe
Nice....gotta love the last quote on the story....

Chris Hadfield, an American astronaut on board the ISS, sent out the following tweet Tuesday morning: "Good Morning, Earth! Today we transition the Space Station's main computers to a new software load. Nothing could possibly go wrong."

Gotta love that they are wrong! Chris Hadfield is a Canadian astronaut, in fact he was the first Canadian to walk in space. (Wikipedia). So did they just make an assumption he was American or did they just not bother to check their facts?

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Well, i tried to make this a little more light hearted by commenting that it was those Chinese hackers who are at it again but received a comment about one line responses so re-edited my post and emptied it

On a more serious note though, i hope this will not have serious consequences for the crew of the ISS concerning other software up there which may have a negative impact on important life support functions?

Kindest apologetic regards

Rodinus

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I hope this is not related..

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Eh, malfunctions happen in space just like they do here on terra firma. A software glitch by any other name is still just a software glitch. I don't see any big conspiracy or the start of an international "blame game" incident in the making. I mean really, who hasn't experienced software problems?

CNN: edition.cnn.com...

According to them, there are 1 American and 2 Russians on board. Wonder what happened to the Canadian commander. And to those 2 other guys onboard, for that matter...

I always thought saying "nothing can go wrong" will somehow lead to something going wrong...

Originally posted by CrimsonMoon

The primary computer controlling critical station functions defaulted to a backup computer,

Windows sucks ass...



One Line /Short Responses - Read Me

edit on 19-2-2013 by elevatedone because: (no reason given)

I told them to install Mac OS X !!!
Now they should have listened to me!

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Communication restored to the ISS

Originally posted by ExPostFacto
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Communication restored to the ISS

Thanks, just updated the OP.

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Turned it off and on again?

Always works for me. Hehe.

Good to hear they are beck in communications, not nice thinking "In space can anyone hear you scream?".

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