NASA FIXES COMPUTER GLITCH ON MARS-BOUND ROVER
Engineers have bound the glitch that caused a computer reset on the booster carrying NASA’s Curiosity corsair before long after it launched toward Mars in November, officials voiced Thursday (Feb. 9).
The reset occurred on Nov. twenty-nine — 3 days after the Curiosity corsair bloody off — whilst the booster was regulating the star scanner, a maritime tool. NASA engineers dynamic that the glitch was caused by a formerly opposite tone in the mental recall management section of the spacecraft’s computer processor.
Researchers reconfigured a exam computer on Earth, and the reset didn’t recover after billions of runs. The goal group afterwards done the program shift on the spacecraft’s computer final week and reliable this week that the refurbish was successful, NASA officials said.
“Good investigator work on bargain because the reset occurred has yielded a approach to forestall it from occurring again,” goal emissary plan physical education instructor Richard Cook, of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., pronounced in a statement. “The successful fortitude of this complaint was the result of prolific teamwork by engineers at the computer manufacturer and JPL.”
The Mars-bound booster began normal use of the star tracker this week after the program update, and the instrument rescued the Red Planet.
“Our target is in view,” pronounced JPL’s Steve Collins, perspective control subsystem operative for the spacecraft’s tour from Earth to Mars.
Curiosity, the centerpiece of NASA’s $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory mission, is due to land at Mars’ Gale Crater in early Aug of this year.
The 1-ton rover’s arch target is to sign either the Gale Crater area can, or ever could, await microbial life. Most of Curiosity’s 10 opposite scholarship instruments are built to assistance the corsair answer this question.
As of twelve p.m. EST (1700 GMT) on Friday (Feb. 10), the Mars Science Laboratory booster will have trafficked 127 million miles (205 million kilometers) on the 352-million-mile (567-million-km) tour to Mars. At that time, it will be relocating at about 17,800 mph (28,600 kph) relations to Earth and about 63,700 mph (102,500 kph) relations to the sun, researchers said.
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Engineers have bound the glitch that caused a computer reset on the booster carrying NASA’s Curiosity corsair before long after it launched toward Mars in November, officials voiced Thursday (Feb. 9).
The reset occurred on Nov. twenty-nine — 3 days after the Curiosity corsair bloody off — whilst the booster was regulating the star scanner, a maritime tool. NASA engineers dynamic that the glitch was caused by a formerly opposite tone in the mental recall management section of the spacecraft’s computer processor.
Researchers reconfigured a exam computer on Earth, and the reset didn’t recover after billions of runs. The goal group afterwards done the program shift on the spacecraft’s computer final week and reliable this week that the refurbish was successful, NASA officials said.
“Good investigator work on bargain because the reset occurred has yielded a approach to forestall it from occurring again,” goal emissary plan physical education instructor Richard Cook, of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., pronounced in a statement. “The successful fortitude of this complaint was the result of prolific teamwork by engineers at the computer manufacturer and JPL.”
The Mars-bound booster began normal use of the star tracker this week after the program update, and the instrument rescued the Red Planet.
“Our target is in view,” pronounced JPL’s Steve Collins, perspective control subsystem operative for the spacecraft’s tour from Earth to Mars.
Curiosity, the centerpiece of NASA’s $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory mission, is due to land at Mars’ Gale Crater in early Aug of this year.
The 1-ton rover’s arch target is to sign either the Gale Crater area can, or ever could, await microbial life. Most of Curiosity’s 10 opposite scholarship instruments are built to assistance the corsair answer this question.
As of twelve p.m. EST (1700 GMT) on Friday (Feb. 10), the Mars Science Laboratory booster will have trafficked 127 million miles (205 million kilometers) on the 352-million-mile (567-million-km) tour to Mars. At that time, it will be relocating at about 17,800 mph (28,600 kph) relations to Earth and about 63,700 mph (102,500 kph) relations to the sun, researchers said.
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