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Spirit Rover Communications Error

Posted by michael on from the abort-retry-ignore dept.

cybrthng writes "Through yesterdays press release and the current Nasa Briefing there is news that they are having communications errors with contacting spirit. Is she lost or is it something akin to the Pathfinder failures that happened? Or did little green people claim an expensive tonka truck toy?"

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  1. Well, It's Plainly Obvious by tealover · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Beagle has extracted its revenge.

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    -- You see, there would be these conclusions that you could jump to
  2. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  3. Re:not as bad as it sounds. by Greg151 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Is there some sort of reboot built into this gizmo? One would think that it would have a reboot timer built in, or that NASA could give it a reboot command to start the whole thing up again. I am hoping that this isn't too serious, either, and we can still recover from the error.

    Good Luck, little Spirit.

  4. Re:not as bad as it sounds. by mlyle · · Score: 1, Redundant

    From the parent post:

    In the coming days, if communications are not restored, the spacecraft will enter safe modes that cause it to try harder to transmit and will reset subsystems. I am optimistic at this point.

  5. ALL YOUR ROVER... by frank_adrian314159 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ... ARE BELONG TO US!

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    That is all.