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New Horizons' quick trip & recovery from safe mode
Littlebit
post Mar 27 2007, 06:41 PM
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http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/overview/piPerspec...ive_current.php

QUOTE (Alan Stern)
Since a bad word in C&DH memory could invoke an unpredictable spacecraft action, C&DH is programmed to command itself to reboot (and thus restore memory from a boot PROM) whenever such an double-bit error is detected. But whenever C&DH resets, our onboard autonomous fault-detection and -protection system declares an emergency and commands the spacecraft to suspend all current activities and go to a "Safe Mode."


That sounds like my mother's behavior whenever she hears a bad word.

Is it a coincidence that this occurred while New Horizons was surfing in Pluto's magnetosphere? Has the single bit error count been up since the Jupiter boost? Perhaps Jupiter is a little peeved about the theft of gravitational energy...
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