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Faulty Tape Recorder Hinders Retrieval of Galileo

Posted by Hemos on from the get-it-all dept.

Sponge! writes "In an article on space.com, NASA scientists struggled to get a balky tape recorder to work last Tuesday so they could retrieve some of the final data gathered by the aging Galileo spacecraft. It would be sad to see something like this prevent us from getting the data that we've waited so long for, and may have to wait even longer."

2 of 17 comments (clear)

  1. The tape recorder must be protected by eggstasy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The tape recorder must be protected from the terrible secret of space.
    PAK CHOOIE UNF

  2. Yawn. Data loss is so passe. by torpor · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Come on, it's not like this is interesting.

    How many times have we all lost data through *software* upgrades, let alone hardware problems...

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