News just in, the NASA mars Rover "Spirit" is unable to send usefull data OR receive commands, it`s suspected a memory or a software error may have occured

 

I`ve got no more info as yet

 

Edit: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3421071.stm

thanx to sayonara for the link

 

 

 

Better hope NASA has a good IT service agreement with guaranteed service on the spot.

 

It is realy bad if we manage to loose spirit for a software bug!

Press conference on the matter can be found here: http://qs240.pair.com/sfnvideo/plus/p0401/040122thursdaystatus_qt.html

password required :/

good point, using Guest as the ID and 3 tries at a passy "new" "guest" and "Nasa" I got booted out

well at least our probe MADE IT to mars, which is more than the europeans can claim

 

Or many other people... Most either go SPLATT! or whoops! Missed!

Once NASA even confused metric with US, that made for a big problem.

Beagle 2 is on Mars.

Cap'n Refsmmat said in post # :

Or many other people... Most either go SPLATT! or whoops! Missed!

Once NASA even confused metric with US, that made for a big problem.

Metric with Imperial, not "US".

 

Only 1/3 of all probes and landers sent to Mars succeed, for one reason or another. That includes American probes.

I think it is a real shame if this probe breaks down. Personally I'd like to see all missions succeed, think of the amazing amount of science that would get done. That is where all the fun stuff is.

 

It'd be nice to know what happened to Beagle 2 though.

There's another one landing in 3 days so it's not too tragic a loss if it doesn't come back.

apparently it just spurted at spain.

 

information, that is.

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3423717.stm

fafalone said in post # :

well at least our probe MADE IT to mars, which is more than the europeans can claim

 

 

The probe DID make it to mars, and the thing it came to mars on is transmitting valuable information.

 

Unlike NASA's Mars Polar Whatsit, which sort of burnt up because of incompetence.

 

As Radical Edward said, it would have been better to have ALL of them suceed.

 

It's pointless having country vs country on science, as Oxbridge would win (hoho).

Imperial College.... because we had that cluster mission, before the french blew it up.

I believe they're going to re-air the newsconference from 7-8p.m. (i think that's pacific time, but I'm not sure) and for those that don't have access to it, you can stream live NASA-TV here: http://nasa-tv.yi.org