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

    I didn't know McGyver worked at NASA.

  3. 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?