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Spirit Sends Debug Information to Earth

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the randy-california-not-available-for-comment dept.

gfilion writes "NASA has released a press release that says: 'Shortly before noon, controllers were surprised to receive a relay of data from Spirit via the Mars Odyssey orbiter. Spirit sent 73 megabits at a rate of 128 kilobits per second.'" They've been having communications troubles with Spirit since Wednesday, so it's good to hear from it again, even if the data is just filler.

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  1. Re:Can low-power corrupt memory? by meringuoid · · Score: 0, Troll
    "I watched the press conference on NASA-TV and they talked about how the thing wouldn't go to sleep at night"

    If I had 128kbps, I wouldn't sleep much either. It's a nightmare being back on 56k after having known 512... :-(

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  2. haha pathetic by relrelrel · · Score: 0, Troll

    128 kBits/sec!, i'm running at 256k up and 512k down, and my connection and computer didn't cost the $400m or whatever it was. NASA should shop around instead of going for whatever ISP approaches them first.

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  3. Hey Cowboy Neal by Cat_Byte · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'm not flaming because my story wasn't submitted but if you felt it was news you might want to find out why your editors rejected it yesterday as news.

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  4. NASA by mog007 · · Score: 0, Troll

    128 kilobits per second

    Isn't NASA still running everything on the same hardware they used for the Apollo missions? The old 286 processors and so on? If that's the case... how did they manage to get such a high transfer rate? A 286 doesn't have a fsb anywhere near that.

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  5. Re:Bushes space program... by Alien+Being · · Score: 0, Troll

    You are a victim of Bush's weapons of mass deception.