Title: | Space Exploration |
Notice: | Shuttle launch schedules, see Note 6 |
Moderator: | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN |
Created: | Mon Feb 17 1986 |
Last Modified: | Thu Jun 05 1997 |
Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
Number of topics: | 974 |
Total number of notes: | 18843 |
Out of curiosity...which computers have "glitched" for targeting/ sighting all the deep space objects for the orbiting telescopes on the current shuttle mission? ABC news tonight had a little "NASA Snafu" story about how the backup system had overheated so the guys on board were trying to "joystick" the various scopes onto the targets. The primary "screwed the pooch" on Sunday, and now the backup has "eff'd up". Great. Is this our stuff? (I hope not). Why? See Astronomy note # 933. Scott
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682.1 | 25474::MAIEWSKI | Fri Dec 07 1990 16:23 | 6 | ||
As usual, the press and media are only too happy to report each glitch and completely ignore the solution which follows. Yeh, a bunch of stuff stopped working but once again when an alternate method of operation was found, it didn't get reported. George | |||||
682.2 | 19458::FISHER | I like my species the way it is" "A narrow view... | Fri Dec 07 1990 17:38 | 4 | |
Did NASA actually do the contracting etc for Astro-1? If not, they are getting a raw deal anyway. Burns | |||||
682.3 | See topic 611 for Astro story | LEVERS::HUGHES | TANSTAAFL | Fri Dec 07 1990 19:45 | 6 |
Note 611 has the complete story on the astro mission, including the failures of the last couple of days. There are a total of 217 replys under that topic, the last 20 or so describe the events of the mission so far. Mike H |