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post Sep 20 2013, 11:05 PM
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My limited understanding of the nature of the glitch is that it wasn't a bad command recently sent to the spacecraft like with Viking or MGS, but rather something that was lurking in the code for a very long time, and suddenly became fatal when the spacecraft clock ticked across a threshold. If that makes it any better.


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post Sep 20 2013, 11:15 PM
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I wasn't implying poor ground control; I just would prefer it be something unavoidable, even a pebble, rather than some old programming glitch.

And hey, soon we'll have Rosetta coming online for our comet fix...
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post Sep 21 2013, 04:32 PM
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It's just entropy at work. SOMETHING eventually happens, and the system becomes disorderly.

That's just the way the Universe works. Nothing survives the effects of probability ever; the engineering challenge is to increase the amount of time between construction & a fatal event.

Again, this mission FAR exceeded expectations & vastly increased our knowledge of comets. I think that the entire team deserves more kudos than they'll ever get.

If any of them ever read this, THANK YOU!!! smile.gif Been one hell of a great ride!

EDIT: And let's not forget that the Chairman of UMSF, Doug, was on console for the Hartley-2 encounter, so at least in spirit all of us were direct participants in this mission.


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post Sep 21 2013, 04:38 PM
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Oh we definitely remember that... and watching the first reaction to the 2005 impact on NASA TV. Easily comparable to the Curiosity landing, though never replayed anywhere as far as I can find (outside this forum).
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