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Voyager 2 stops making sense
According to a statement released by the JPL, the problem first became apparent on April 22nd. Data from the scientific transmission, which currently reports on the conditions at the very edge of the solar system, began coming through with improper formatting, making it impossible to interpret the contents. Engineering data is still intelligible, so the JPL staff is expecting that it will be possible to figure out what's going wrong and introduce a fix. Serious attempts at repair were delayed by a planned roll maneuver, and only started on Friday. With a round-trip time of over a day, however, progress will undoubtedly be slow.
Still, optimism springs eternal at NASA. If it's deterministically corrupted in memory, it's possible they could post-process it.
NASA unveils sweeping new programs | The Space Shot - CNET News
"At NASA, we provided astronauts for exploration," he said. "A lot of that exploration and experimentation today and in the future will be done on the International Space Station. So what we are doing is relying on commercial capability to get us access to low Earth orbit, to get us to the International Space Station.
"But to get to places like the moon and Mars and other beyond LEO places, that, we feel, is the responsibility of your government. Because that's risky, that's an investment that we can't really count on a commercial entity taking until we've demonstrated the ability to do that and do it safely."
Jumping from Space
Joseph Kittinger was arguably the first man in space. He went up to 102,800 feet in a ballon ... and jumped. More.
A story about Lisp remote debugging « The thoughts of a Madman
Debugging a program running on a $100M piece of hardware that is 100 million miles away is an interesting experience. Having a read-eval-print loop running on the spacecraft proved invaluable in finding and fixing the problem.
Tom’s Astronomy Blog » Blog Archive » Mystery Object is 2010 AL30
Yesterday, January 13, 2010 there was an object that made a rather close pass at the earth. There had been quite a bit of speculation as to what it really was, some thinking it was a piece of space junk, I even heard the rocket from ESA’s Venus Express. The object has an orbit extending roughly from the orbit of Venus to the orbit of Mars and crosses Earth’s orbit at a steep angle the idea of a rocket stage is not considered likely by folks at the JPL NEO program.
SPOILER ALERT: Asteroid.
Video here.
Space Age Style: 20 Forgotten Photos from the Apollo 11 Mission | PDN Photo of the Day
Apollo 11 astronaut Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin arrives arrival at the flight crew training building.
Buzz had a pretty sweet ride. The rest of the photos are very interesting, as a glimpse into the Space Program during one of its finest moments.
