Mars Rover Spirit Falls Silent ...

[My Wife Hates CIV]

Originally posted by Whoha
they got about 30 minutes of transmission with the rover today. I bet the other lander suffers the same problem this guy is going through.

well maybe this time NASA will get that rover going before it falls apart. two weeks to turn and roll off the landing pad???

Can't wait! I'm sure flat plains with small rocks everywhere might look different on the other side. I'm sure that other $400 million digital camera will tell the story.

[Bereta_Eder]

Some alien propably pissed on it and shortcircuited it.

[Ned]

bfg9000, as a concerned socialist, do you also advocate a robust economy?

[asleepathewheel]

edit: nevermind...

[Jac de Molay]

Maybe Sasquatch ate the lander..

[Ned]

Asleep, is that a footprint?

[yavoon]

Originally posted by Sprayber



You assuming that I assume anything is a big mistake. Assumptions can be major ****ups


Just because I don't have a hard on everytime NASA sends up a probe doesnt mean you can act all smug and think you are somehow connected to the pulse of science. Sure space exploration is good, but perhaps we could start making life here on this planet a little happier.

what is w/ this infantile baseless and unsupported logic that removing NASA will make ur life better? I mean wtf. not only is it out on a limb it also flies in the face of all the achievements and advances NASA has made.

[yavoon]

Originally posted by dannubis


I hope you never find yourself in a situation where you become dependent on this kind of support...

wtf kinda bleeding heart posts are this. u act like we don't have a welfare program now, or that I am in favor of not having one

when all I'm doing is defending NASA from utterly myopic viewpoints that suggest that we should make sure that everyone gets paid for not working instead of venturing out human reach to the stars.

[asleepathewheel]

Originally posted by Ned
Asleep, is that a footprint?

I can't say....

[Winston]

Follow up on my earlier remarks on the decision to not continue the servicing of Hubble:

I just heard NASA administrator Sean O'Keefe on a press briefing say that this decision was made months ago, and had absolutely nothing to do with President Bush's new space exploration initiative.

He said it was purely an assessment of risk following the commitee investigation report on the Columbia disaster. Hubble would have to be serviced by the shuttle, and following the Columbia mishap, NASA is now obligated to have the capacity to perform a rescue effort when they return the shuttle to flight, either by way of launching a second shuttle or by having the astronauts transfered temporarily to the ISS. The decision was whether to focus solely on servicing the ISS or to include other uses for the shuttle, such as servicing Hubble (which has a completely different orbit path than the Station), and either option would involve fundamentally different priorities and safeguarding measures, so at the end of the day, NASA chose to focus on the ISS for the remaining period of time that the shuttle will be in operation. Purely for safety reasons, and not as a result of the recently announced plans to go back to the Moon and on to Mars.

Previous servicing missions to Hubble by the shuttle were made without realising the severe risks those missions exposed the astronauts to, but that has changed following the evaluation report on Columbia, and NASA can't take that risk anymore with the shuttle and its crew.

BTW, starting at 7:30 PM PST (3:30 AM GMT) there will be live commentary and footage from the Mars Rover Control Center, anticipating the touchdown of the Opportunity lander at 9:05 PM PST (5:05 AM GMT) at NASA TV, requires RealPlayer to watch.

[Edan]

Cautioning that they will need more time to understand what went wrong, project engineers said they have determined that Spirit has rebooted or tried to reboot itself more than 60 times a day since the failure.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/01/23/spirit.contact/index.html

[DanS]

BTW, starting at 7:30 PM PST (3:30 AM GMT) there will be live commentary and footage from the Mars Rover Control Center, anticipating the touchdown of the Opportunity lander at 9:05 PM PST (5:05 AM GMT) at NASA TV, requires RealPlayer to watch.

Most amis get NASA TV on cable. Thanks for the heads up.

[asleepathewheel]

nasa tv?

hmm. I have directtv, don't think i get it (wasn't getting it through the old digital cable 6 months ago either)


Thank god they have a second rover, lets hope it doesn't screw up.

[Ned]

NASA TV is channel 376 on DirectTV. They have a newsconference right now, 6:10 pm, Pacific.

[Ned]

They are going to have a press conference on the landing of the Opportunity around 10:30 pm Pacific.