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1 posted on 04/13/2021 11:28:45 AM PDT by Red Badger
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*BRICKED*


2 posted on 04/13/2021 11:29:41 AM PDT by montag813 ("Fallen, fallen, is Babylon the Great")
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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.


5 posted on 04/13/2021 11:35:07 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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Lot of good verbiage, but shouldn’t his have been anticipated back on earth a long time ago?


6 posted on 04/13/2021 11:35:33 AM PDT by Truth29
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I bet the IT guy does not show up today.


7 posted on 04/13/2021 11:36:42 AM PDT by Meatspace
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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!


8 posted on 04/13/2021 11:36:51 AM PDT by Nateman (Keep Liberty Alive! Article V)
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1202 error?


9 posted on 04/13/2021 11:39:03 AM PDT by jaydubya2
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Through Huawei networking equipment? What could go wrong?


22 posted on 04/13/2021 12:00:09 PM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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Through Huawei networking equipment? What could go wrong?


23 posted on 04/13/2021 12:00:09 PM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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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.


27 posted on 04/13/2021 12:50:50 PM PDT by Tallguy
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NASA has got to stop using Windows 10.


33 posted on 04/13/2021 1:17:09 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (I need more money. )
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