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Kepler Recovers After 144 Hour "Glitch"

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the hate-when-that-happens dept.

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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  1. Proof of extraterrestrial life! by aardwolf64 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Alright, who hit F8 while it was booting up???

  2. Hay guys I got this one! by flydpnkrtn · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You need safe mode with networking, not just plain old "Safe Mode" guys!

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    1. Re:Hay guys I got this one! by LaminatorX · · Score: 4, Funny

      It's not like this stuff is rocket science.

      Oh, wait.

  3. Tech Support by Manos_Of_Fate · · Score: 4, Funny

    Did they try turning it off and then on again?

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    1. Re:Tech Support by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      That's not nearly as easy as it sounds in orbit.

      Nothing sounds easy in a near vacuum.

  4. WRT54G by twebb72 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Turns out the NIC was working just fine. They had to power cycle the WRT54G in Houston to get it to reconnect.

  5. NetworkWorld? by Nikker · · Score: 4, Informative

    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!

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