NASA Cancels Hubble Mission, and Other Space Bits

An anonymous reader writes "NASA Watch is reporting that NASA has cancelled Servicing Mission 4 for the Hubble Space Telescope. The reason given is not for budgets, but for safety." ender81b writes "With all the excitement generated by the Mars Exploration Rovers now is a good time to look at future space exploration missions. One of the most exciting is the Kepler spacecraft which will search for terrestrial planets around nearby stars. Other interesting upcoming missions include the New Horizons mission to explore Pluto and the Kuiper belt, Deep Impact which will fire a small impactor into a comet to study the insides, Messenger which will fully photograph Mercury for the first time, and the ESA's Herschel infrared space telescope and Rosetta spacecraft which will land on a comet for the first time. Whew, good time to be invovled in space exploration!" StarWreck writes "Cnet.com is reporting that the Mars Rover uses Java. The same piece of software that lets people around the world play video games on their cell phones is now letting scientists drive the ultimate remote-controlled car across the surface of Mars."

Comments

failure not an option

[ir0b0t]

Sir, we've run into a serious problem with the mission. These Nielsen ratings are the lowest ever.

Oh my God! We've been beaten by a "Connie Chung Christmas."

Re:failure not an option

[LostCluster]

Furthermore, it was "Connie Chung Christmas" being rerun in January...

Simply put

[gluteus]

You killed Hubble! You bastard!

Re:The Mars Rover does not use Java

[Sabalon]

The reason for it is that Mars is too far away to manage the rover in real time - you have to wait 20 minuite to see the effects of your command.

So all we needs is some decent FPS game players that are used to working the lag. If anything goes wrong, they can just yell out that it was a wall hack by some camper. :)

Java? That explains it!

[Markus Registrada]

I wondered why that Rover was so damn slow. It took days just to drive it off the lander.

Hmm, Java.

Re:I'm so fucking pissed

[caffeineboy]

Someone said on Fark the other day:

The next law will be the "Cake and Pie for Everybody Act" in which Cheney and Bush their buddies line everyone up and slap us with their dicks.

But I think that was the 'tax cut'...

Ask people if they think that the repeal of the "death tax" has one little thing to do with them. People are convinced that it was something that applied to everyday people....

Re:Java is known as the language to play games...

[AKAImBatman]

rebooting the rover prolly isnt an option

Military: "Failure is not an option!"
NASA: "Failure is not in the budget!"

;-)