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One Last mission For Deep Space 1

Posted by timothy on from the do-it-for-the-gipper dept.

Vertigo01 writes: "Looks like NASA has found a fitting end for Deep Space 1, they're going to fly her THROUGH the coma of a comet to try and take some pictures of the comet's core ... the kicker is that they're doing it with barely any fuel left, and a kludged-together science-camera to replace the toasted navigation system ... kind of a fitting end for her IMO."

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  1. The JPL: Geeks in Spaaaaaaaace! by odaiwai · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is just the sort of thing we used to expect from the JPL: "We've got fifteen bytes spare and a few milli-amps left in the batteries. We can probably take out the Death Star with that."

    What was that old story? With a small amount of memory remaining after all the main programs had been entered, someone at JPL wrote a program to look for and identify previously unknown moons of Jupiter and send pictures back.

    dave "wist"

  2. Re:Scientific value? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    If for $12 million they can show that the special effects in the $140 million movie "Armageddon" were crap, I say it's a great value.

  3. duct tape by astafas · · Score: 4, Funny

    I didn't know McGyver worked at NASA.

  4. Re:$12 million by csbruce · · Score: 3, Funny

    Then the code has to be proved to be mathematically perfect.

    Does the proof itself need to be prooved to be correct, or is that taken on faith?

  5. Re:$12 million by csbruce · · Score: 2, Funny

    This is offtopic, but I wish you luck on that flight...

    Cancelled.