DART Succumbs to Fuel Problems

Posted by timothy on Saturday April 16, 2005 @03:13PM from the well-there-went-my-tax-payment dept.

qw0ntum writes "The AP reports that NASA's experimental DART (Demonstration of Autonomous Rendezvous Technology) spacecraft mission ended early when the craft's onboard computers detected a fuel-system problem. The craft, which was entirely computer-controlled, came within 300 feet of its target rendezvous target, a Pentagon satelite, before detecting the problem. Despite the failure, mission leaders 'called the mission a partial success because it demonstrated that an entirely computer-controlled craft could find a satellite in space.'"

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Re:units again? by TheKidWho · 2005-04-16 15:38 · Score: 0, Troll

oooo j00 s000 funny and smarty!!!

NASA DOES use metric, get your head out of your ass.

The people who mod you and your type insightful deserve to have their brains hanged from a bridge...