Man, that's gotta suck. Now it's a $200,000,000 paperweight on Mars.
[hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;"]Mars Global Surveyor Died from Single Bad Command
The LA Times reports that a [a href="vny!://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-mars14apr14,0,4365613.story?coll=la-home-headlines"]single wrong command[/a] sent to the wrong computer address caused a cascade of events that led to the loss of the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft last November. The command was an orientation instruction for the spacecraft's main communications antenna. The mistake caused a problem with the positioning of the solar power panels, which in turned caused one of the batteries to overheat, shutting down the solar power system and draining the batteries some 12 hours later.
'The review panel found the management team followed existing procedures in dealing with the problem, but those procedures were inadequate to catch the errors that occurred. The review also said the spacecraft's onboard fault-protection system failed to respond correctly to the errors. Instead of protecting the spacecraft, the programmed response made it worse.'
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That's one big oopsie.
Well, I guess they know for next time then.
So.. when are you guys footing the bill for the next one?
I remember the beagle project. They were using the metric and standard measurements and somebody goofed and it crashed. brilliant.
Sportsdude wrote:
I remember the beagle project. They were using the metric and standard measurements and somebody goofed and it crashed. brilliant.
THATS the one I was sitting here trying to remember SD! Thanks.. I remembered something like that with the space program.. couldnt quite remember which one it was though.
yup a complete mess that project was. Then on the Titan exploration thingy somebody forgot to turn on this program on the module. ugh, nasa people are suppose to be smart... oops there's that one crazy astronaut.
Imagine yourself...you went in space as a tourist and... ...someone send you in outer space because someone pushed the "wrong button"....hahahahahhaah....'cuz that 'someone' had a bad weekend or a bad hangover.....haha...the "wrong button" sent you in black hole!!!!!!!!!!!!! (//vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/4.gif)
Imagine yourself...you went in space as a tourist and... ...someone send you in outer space because someone pushed the "wrong button"....hahahahahhaah....'cuz that 'someone' had a bad weekend or a bad hangover.....haha...the "wrong button" sent you in black hole!!!!!!!!!!!!! (//vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/4.gif)
how D hell this happened? those two posts above are mine!!!!??? who D hell is a guest! I guess I pushed a "wrong button" ......upps! sorryy....