Kepler Recovers After 144 Hour "Glitch"

coondoggie writes "There was likely a pretty big sigh of relief at NASA's Ames Research Center this week as the group's star satellite Kepler recovered from a glitch that took it offline for 144 hours. According to NASA the glitch happened March 14, right after the spacecraft issued a network interface card (NIC) reset command to implement a computer program update. During the reset, the NIC sent invalid reaction wheel data to the flight software, which caused the spacecraft to enter safe mode, NASA stated."

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NetworkWorld?

[Nikker]

I thought we would actually get the NASA link http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/kepler/news/keplerm-20110321.html which FWIW is almost verbatim to the NetworkWorld link shows. Copy pasta FTW!