Kepler Recovers After 144 Hour "Glitch"

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday March 22, 2011 @09:53AM 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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Proof of extraterrestrial life! by aardwolf64 · 2011-03-22 09:56 · Score: 5, Funny

Alright, who hit F8 while it was booting up???
Hay guys I got this one! by flydpnkrtn · 2011-03-22 09:58 · Score: 5, Insightful

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

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