Mars-bound spaceship experiencing technical issues: NASA:
Mars 2020, the spaceship carrying NASA's new rover Perseverance to the Red Planet, is experiencing technical difficulties and is running on essential systems only, the agency said Thursday.
"Data indicate the spacecraft had entered a state known as safe mode, likely because a part of the spacecraft was a little colder than expected while Mars 2020 was in Earth's shadow," NASA said.
The spaceship has left Earth's shadow and the temperatures are now normal.
[...] Matt Wallace, the mission's deputy project manager, said that the fact that the spaceship had entered safe mode was not overly concerning.
"That's perfectly fine, the spacecraft is happy there," he said. "The team is working through that telemetry, they're going to look through the rest of the spacecraft health. "So far, everything I've seen looks good, so we'll know more in a little bit."
Related:
Perseverance, Ingenuity begin seven month journey to Mars
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Previously:
Mars 2020 Rover to Include a Mars Helicopter
Mars Helicopter Enters Final Testing
Mars Mission Readies Tiny Chopper for Red Planet Flight
NASA Reveals the New Wavy Martian Wheels it Thinks Can Crush the Red Planet
Three Missions to Mars Happening this Month
(Score: 2) by Mojibake Tengu on Friday July 31 2020, @06:56PM (8 children)
How's that possible? That indicates the thermal profile digital model of of the craft was wrong to begin with.
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(Score: 4, Informative) by KritonK on Friday July 31 2020, @07:31PM (1 child)
From https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=41005.msg2113511#msg2113511 [nasaspaceflight.com]
In other words, everything worked as planned for this eventuality.
(Score: 2, Funny) by fustakrakich on Friday July 31 2020, @08:04PM
everything worked as planned
Now, be ready to die! BWAAHAHAHAHAAA!
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(Score: 3, Funny) by Runaway1956 on Friday July 31 2020, @07:35PM (4 children)
What was that bit on Star Trek?
"To boldly go where no man has gone before, so the next person knows how to go there again and survive."
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Mojibake Tengu on Friday July 31 2020, @07:46PM
I presume there already were some stuffs boldly passing Earth's shadow before.
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 31 2020, @08:06PM (2 children)
<pedantic>
"To go boldly..."
</pedantic>
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 31 2020, @09:31PM (1 child)
That ship sailed [wikipedia.org] a long time ago.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 01 2020, @02:38PM
I yield...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 31 2020, @10:46PM
If that was the expected coldest part of the mission, and if there were no mission requirements that needed to be met in that region, and the spacecraft is happy and has no problem at those temperatures in safe mode, then why would you want to design for it to be operational during that time? I'd rather SWAP the changes you would need for that region for extra capability elsewhere.