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Pluto Probe Back To Normal, Cause of Snafu Found

Posted by Soulskill on from the just-had-to-realign-the-warp-fields dept.

Tablizer writes: NASA has provided an update to the problem with the New Horizons probe that will fly by Pluto next week. "The investigation into the anomaly that caused New Horizons to enter "safe mode" on July 4 has concluded that no hardware or software fault occurred on the spacecraft. The underlying cause of the incident was a hard-to-detect timing flaw in the spacecraft command sequence that occurred during an operation to prepare for the close flyby. No similar operations are planned for the remainder of the Pluto encounter.

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  1. Re:No hardware or software fault? by MightyYar · · Score: 4, Informative

    I'm pretty sure that "fault" has a specific meaning in NASA parlance. There was obviously a software bug, but it probably didn't "fault".

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  2. No exactly a SNAFU by jgtg32a · · Score: 3, Informative

    While NASA has had some spectacular bugs in the past, they aren't common enough to start throwing around SNAFU.

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