*BRICKED*
They had a watchdog timeout that rebooted the drone; it happened when they tried to spin the rotors up to 2400 rpm (which I have to admit is pretty fast for blades that big).
It struck me as pretty remarkable that something as fundamental as a watchdog timeout would have happened “at the job site,” so to speak, but you can’t catch every detail. Especially when the environment is as radically different as the surface of Mars.
I hope they can fix it with the new software. Bit of a long data link, but that’s why error-correcting codes were invented. NASA controlled the New Horizons spacecraft at a much longer distance.
Lot of good verbiage, but shouldn’t his have been anticipated back on earth a long time ago?
I bet the IT guy does not show up today.
They had a contest to name this little flyer. I thought it should have been called ‘Mayfly’ because it won’t fly for very long. It MAY not even FLY at all!
1202 error?
Through Huawei networking equipment? What could go wrong?
Through Huawei networking equipment? What could go wrong?
When you think about it... getting all the software bugs worked out before a critical launch date could become impossible. So re-programming during the mission has to be an option. Cuz you never know.
NASA has got to stop using Windows 10.